When you hear writing instruction, do you want to pull your hair out, or do you get excited? Let me be honest. For way too many years, I wanted to pull my hair out. It wasn't necessarily because I didn't enjoy teaching writing. It was because I was overwhelmed with the task at hand, and I had no idea where to start. I knew that writing mini-lessons were the way to go because my students needed to spend the majority of their writing block actually writing. Not listening to me talk. Even ...
Writing Mini-Lessons for the Entire Year
