I really loved the aha moment of seeing how Tammy used the Theme Writing pretest to evaluate students' sentence and paragraph writing skills in order to meet students where they were, as well and her Writing Intervention Mapping of Lessons and Content. How I wish I'd had that approach with schools I've worked with who needed it all and got bogged down delivering just Sentence Writing to everyone as a prerequisite. I also thought she did a great job of show-casing on-line tools for teaching like Nearpod. I've already shared it with my daughter-in-law, a school-based technology specialist here in Fairfax.
I also really appreciated Janet's exploration of using Content Enhancement organizers as pre-writing tools. I'm hoping to propose professional development along those lines to a school I've worked with that's been looking for writing tools that can be used across the curriculum.
I also really appreciated Janet's exploration of using Content Enhancement organizers as pre-writing tools. I'm hoping to propose professional development along those lines to a school I've worked with that's been looking for writing tools that can be used across the curriculum.