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Stay informed with regular updates by Lucy Calkins and colleagues at The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower
Features of New Writing Units of Study, Grades 3-5
In this post we are breaking down the new features of our Grades 3-5 Units!
5 Tips for Supporting Your Priorities Amid Budget Cuts
This post breaks down 5 different ways to help support your educators professional development while balancing the reality of budget cuts.
20 Quotes about Reading & Books
The gift of reading is so profound; the ability to share stories, recount history, and express emotions can help us build empathy for those around us. In this post, we have compiled 20 quotes about reading and books that inspire us.
Literacy Professional Development
Five Ways To Learn With The Reading & Writing Project
3 Tips For Students Reading Below Benchmark
Today we are sharing 3 tips to help your students who are reading below benchmark handle complex texts.
6 Tips to Writing a High-Scoring Extended Response
If you’re looking for some quick tips to make the extended response more approachable, you’re in the right place. Below are 6 strategies to help you and your students achieve a high score.
3 Comprehension Strategies for Reading
Here are 3 comprehension tips to help your readers approach test passages with confidence and to hold onto what’s most important.
Vocabulary Success: How Elfrieda Hiebert’s Four C’s Can Transform Your Classroom
This post breaks down best practices, built around Freddy Hiebert’s four C’s, that could help transform vocabulary learning in your classroom.
Rebalancing Literacy Instruction: Key Talking Points and Research
This post aims to establish more common ground between Science of Reading and Balanced Literacy, while also clarifying some of the ways in which the two approaches continue to differ.
AI Learnings in the Classroom
Last month, Holly Clark, a leader in technology integration and the author of The AI Infused Classroom, came to visit us for a few days at The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower. This post shares our 3 takeaways from the session.
From Boxes to Bins: Unpacking Classroom Libraries
Wondering how to process your RWP-M classroom libraries as quickly and efficiently as possible?
Celebrating National Poetry Month
The poet Lucille Clifton said, “Poetry comes out of wonder, not out of knowing.” In honor of National Poetry Month, consider the power of poetry to capture the varied, nuanced, complex range of human emotions and experience.
Jump Rope Readers Are HERE!
Have you heard? Jump Rope Readers are here and ready for you to order now!