When I decided to join Girls Write Now as a mentor, I wanted to create a similar program at my elementary school. But after mentoring for two years, I have finally realized the power of writing mentorships.
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Writing 3 Vocab Stories to Improve Creativity
Teaching writing is fun and difficult, especially when you have fourth graders. Writing 3 vocab stories is the best activity for all your teaching needs.
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Picture Book Review: BIG
Big is the 2024 Caldecott award winner. It tells the story of a girl with big dreams. However as she grows bigger and bigger, she encounters more and more problems due to her size.
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Making SMART Goals for Success
The best way to accomplish something is to first set a goal. Then take a step in the right direction and you are already heading towards success. But making goals is easy, while accomplishing the goal is hard.
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Making Games to Learn Chinese
Learning Chinese is hard. Teaching Chinese is probably even harder. Nobody has the time to practice writing each Chinese character a thousand times and the boring task only makes students hate learning Chinese even more.
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Making a 90-second Newbery Movie
The 90-second Newbery Film Festival is coming up. Time to start making movies again.
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The Best Book of All is their Homerun Book
It’s the end of November and almost Christmas. Which means I need to start thinking about presents for my students. Every year I have students write a letter to Santa with a list of ten different kinds of books they like to read.
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Fun Ice Breaker for First Day of School
Today was the first day of school. I gave the students a “Would You Rather” bingo sheet. Students would circle one of the options.
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