Readers Ask, Susan Answers. Waking to the sound of laughter.

Bailey Lake Michigan Writing Project 2013. com site in all the land! Log Report for 7-25-13. How to improve writing of ELL students in a content area? Did you ever have a class with a bunch of drummers in it? This year I have all of the ELL students on my team. They are not all in the same class, they are spread out, but I see all the sixth-graders that are serviced by the ELL teacher, or on the watch list. There are 12 out of 75. It presents its own set of challenges.

Teacher, writer, husband, father. This Year, Students Introduce the Teacher.

2013 Lake Michigan Writing Project ISI. Reflection is the Heart of Practice by Hole and McEntee. Lindsay, Colleen, Rori, Kim. Susan, Rachel, Tom, Lisa. Kari, Ben, Charles, Greg. Erica, Lindsey, Chris, Tracy, David. Lindsay, Rachel, Charles, Tracy, David. Susan, Ben, Chris, Kim. Kari, Rori, Lisa, Lindsey. Erica, Coleen, Tom, Greg.

A Sourcebook for Responding to Student Writing by Richard Straub. Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson. Responding to Student Writers by Nancy Sommers. Teaching with Student Texts by Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, and Charles Paine.

What is good writing? Makes you go ughm at the end. Evokes a lasting emotional response. Emulates a bit of yourself. Is written by the ones we love. Shuffling memories like the cards you dealt so well. A combination of a rainy day and stale cigarette smoke. Red and silver Winston box.

Thinking is a deeper dimension for me. When I talk to the tutors I work with, I will keep that at the forefront of my mind. It is tempting to think writing is the.

I feel like I have finally been given the tools to teach. For a long time I have wanted to be a teacher, but this is the first time I have gotten pragmatic advice on how to put that desire into practice. And I still ascribe to that philosophy. Thank goodness for LMWP, because now I can put that philosophy to work. I have learned so much from e.

A key to my own success is a reasonable cap on the number of students in my classroom. I strongly believe that a writing class of more than twenty is ineffective it is too easy for individual students to become lost in the room, and it is too difficult for .