- by Kelly Harmon & Randi Anderson
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Oct. 8, 2018, 9:34 a.m.
<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, "Lucida Grande", arial, sans-serif;">We love to show ideas from our newsletter and seminars in action! You have probably heard and read some of our posts about quick writes. It is one of the best instructional strategies for building writing stamina and confidence. Here are two educators who used quick writes in September!</span><br></p>
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- by Kelly Harmon & Randi Anderson
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Oct. 8, 2018, 8:56 a.m.
<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, "Lucida Grande", arial, sans-serif;">Using the <a href="https://www.kellyharmon.net/blog/2018/09/27/learning-targets-success-criteria/" target="_blank">success criteria</a>, teachers can closely monitor learning and provide timely feedback about each students' progress or lack there of. The goal is to watch for students to demonstrate the success criteria. If they aren't able to demonstrate the daily learning target, then we must think about what is keeping them from doing so and take action quickly. Is there a gap or misconception that needs to be addressed in order to move students forward?</span><br></p>
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- by Kelly Harmon & Randi Anderson
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Oct. 4, 2018, 9:44 a.m.
<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, "Lucida Grande", arial, sans-serif;">One of my favorite strategies for building fluency is using karaoke in the classroom! </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" data-id="l-2101260418" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(28, 110, 152); font-family: Roboto, "Lucida Grande", arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Youtube</a><span style="font-family: Roboto, "Lucida Grande", arial, sans-serif;"> offers all the karaoke songs you could want for FREE!</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, "Lucida Grande", arial, sans-serif;">When students participate in karaoke they are practicing reading from left to right, seeing sight words in addition to higher level vocabulary, and improving their rate. All while having a blast.<br></p><div><br></div>
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