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Freewriting Without Tears: How to Build a Classroom Practice of Powerful Freewriting

Ok, so no actual tears have ever been involved with freewriting for me. But I did think about crying when I observed one of my student teachers mind-wrestling with her students in back-to-back classes over what they should do during freewriting. She read a picture book, If You’re Not From the Prairie, aloud to them,…

March 5, 2015 in teaching, writing.
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