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…I’d like to share some more thoughts on Jeff Beck. Listening to the album reminded me of how I discovered the “Blow By Blow” album, and especially “Cause We’ve End… more →
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Setting Up a Reading Workshop: More from Units of Study Across the Year in Upper Grade Reading, Grades 3-5
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bestbookihavenotread wrote 1 week ago: Provisioning a Reading Workshop: Overview, Classroom Environment, and Tools A transcript of remarks … more →
Unit of Study: Fiction Writing
debrennersmith wrote 3 weeks ago: This is a link to a great write up about one of Lucy’s units of study: fiction. I am always … more →
How-To make crayons!
debrennersmith wrote 3 weeks ago: This was one of my FAVORITE VIDEOS when I was a little girl! This is an awesome procedure lesson. h … more →
Architecture of a Mini-Lesson
bestbookihavenotread wrote 4 months ago: The architecture of a mini-lesson is a topic that came up several times over the past week at the Re … more →
Helping the Reticent Writer
wzacuto wrote 7 months ago: In the Writer’s Workshop model of instruction, pioneered by Lucy Calkins, Nancy Atwell, and Donald G … more →
Differentiated Instruction in Action
differentiatedinstructionclassroom wrote 8 months ago: Now that you know what differentiated instruction is and how it can be used, it’s time to see differ … more →
I Love Reading Mini Lessons
Maddie wrote 8 months ago: Do your students ever need a pick me up? I would suggest using one of the “I Love Reading … more →
Work Out for Health - Journey day 17
genesisteamnext wrote 10 months ago: 01/10/09 Saturday Well, I got to the gym a bit late, so I only had 40 minutes to try to get through … more →
Writing about an Object
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debrennersmith wrote 11 months ago: My mom and a few of her closest friends, painted the nativity many years ago. The grandchildren and … more →
Small Moments: Person Who is Significant During The Holidays
debrennersmith wrote 11 months ago: Often teachers ask me about topic generation. I also know nothing sends terror down the spine of a t … more →
Writing about a Class Experience
debrennersmith wrote 11 months ago: One writing idea is to have the class experience something, then write about this experience. -Sing … more →
Writing: someone is somewhere doing something
debrennersmith wrote 11 months ago: When students are drawing pictures for their plan and just starting to label or write a few random l … more →
A Principal's Guide To Leadership in the Teaching of Writing
debrennersmith wrote 11 months ago: “A Principal’s Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing will keep you company during the hard … more →
Writing: true, focused, significant
debrennersmith wrote 11 months ago: As I reflect on writing samples, I find myself thinking about Lucy Calkins words, “Are the stu … more →
Partial picking (Reply to Tony)
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ericvandenberg wrote 1 year ago: I got an email from one of the readers of the blog, Tony. He asked about combining hammer-ons and pu … more →
LOTW: Vinnie Moore Lick
ericvandenberg wrote 1 year ago: I have been slacking on the LOTW-front lately, and this time there is no soundfile (I might add it l … more →
LOTW: Legato sequence
ericvandenberg wrote 1 year ago: This weeks lick is a little Paul Gilbert style-legato-sequence in Em, great for using 3NPS-patterns. … more →
In response to MrPirali (on muting strings)
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ericvandenberg wrote 1 year ago: MrPirali posted a comment in one of my blog-posts, with some questions regarding muting strings when … more →
LOTW: Double Tapping
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ericvandenberg wrote 1 year ago: The term “double tapping” might be a bit confusing, and different people might read a di … more →
