"Laura, you might attend the writing conference in August in McAllen? Me, too! I'm from Rio Hondo ISD. What ISD are you from? Hopefully a few more of my colleagues will attend.
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Hilda Flores
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Lightning in a Bottle
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What are you Reading?
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Lesson of the Month Club
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Writing with ELLs
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Creating All STAAR Write…
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Hilda Flores might attend Barry Lane's event
Creating All STAAR Writers: 2 day Institute with Gretchen Bernabei and Barry Lane on Expository Writing at Embassy Suites Hotel
August 6, 2012 to August 7, 2012
REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE! TEACHING EXPOSITORY WRITING IS A CHALLENGE Formulaic approaches lead to flat, voiceless writing that bores readers, scores at a mediocre level on tests, and drains the passion for writing out of classrooms. Formulaic student writing becomes robotic. For the last 20 years Barry Lane and Gretchen Bernabei have pioneered innovative strategies in teaching expository writing that help all students…See More
Hilda Flores commented on Robert Zakrzewski's group Writing with ELLs"My ELL students are in a dual language program. Learning to write compositions in Spanish has been easier this year. We're using the BA-DA-BING sentence and incorporating "dialogue" has improved our narrative…"
Hilda Flores commented on Barry Lane's event Creating All STAAR Writers: 2 day Institute with Gretchen Bernabei and Barry Lane on Expository Writing"I benefited so much from last year's institute, that I want to recruit a few more to join me in San Antonio this year, especially to see the new STAAR techniques. "
Hilda Flores might attend Barry Lane's event
Creating All STAAR Writers: 2 day Institute with Gretchen Bernabei and Barry Lane on Expository Writing at Marriott Northwest San Antonio
June 18, 2012 to June 19, 2012
REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE! TEACHING EXPOSITORY WRITING IS A CHALLENGE Formulaic approaches lead to flat, voiceless writing that bores readers, scores at a mediocre level on tests, and drains the passion for writing out of classrooms. Formulaic student writing becomes robotic. For the last 20 years Barry Lane and Gretchen Bernabei have pioneered innovative strategies in teaching expository writing that help all students…See More
Hilda Flores joined Jason Lilly's group
Lightning in a Bottle
Based on Gretchen Bernabei's photo collection, this group is for lovers of photo prompts and is a great place to post your pictures and prompt ideas for use in the classroom.
Hilda Flores joined Barry Lane's group
What are you Reading?
This is a reading discussion group that asks one simple question, like twitter. What are you reading? You can also start a book discussion on a specific title.See More
Hilda Flores joined Barry Lane's group
Lesson of the Month Club
Join the lesson of the month club group to get a wonderful writing lesson from our friends at the Northern Nevada Writing Project : www.writinglesson.ning.com.See More
Hilda Flores joined Robert Zakrzewski's group
Writing with ELLs
A place to share ideas about how to inspire great writing from English Language Learners.
Hilda Flores left a comment for Kacie Martin"Welcome! Let the writing skills begin and the writing benefits for our class grow!"
Manuel Garces Jr. commented on Hilda Flores's blog post Writing Workshop Experience"Wait til you take it back to the classroom. That's when the BIG FUN really begins"
Hilda Flores joined Barry Lane's group
Creating All STAAR Writers with Gretchen and Barry
Here is a place to share ideas that transform students into lifelong writers and help them succeed on any writing test, including STAAR. Download lessons from Barry Lane, Gretchen Bernabei and Alana Morris to add to your tool box. See More
Barry Lane commented on Hilda Flores's blog post Writing Workshop Experience"Thanks so much, Hilda!
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Hilda Flores posted a blog postWriting Workshop Experience
W all full of teachers wereR ady to learn from the mastersI n a hotel room transformed into a classroom.T hinking and talking was encouragedI n a variety of activties and discussions.N ever before had such concern and assistance beenG iven to each one of us. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR WRITING HEARTS!See More
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- How would you describe your work?
- Fourth grade teacher. FAVORITE SUBJECT: Writing
WORST SUBJECT: Test Prep for TAKS and now STAAR...Yuck!
GREATEST LEAD SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Gen.1:1
Hilda Flores's Blog
Writing Workshop Experience
W all full of teachers were
R ady to learn from the masters
I n a hotel room transformed into a classroom.
T hinking and talking was encouraged
I n a variety of activties and discussions.
N ever before had such concern and assistance been
G iven to each one of us.
THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR WRITING HEARTS!
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:13pm — 2 Comments
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Glenda Pompa joined Barry Lane's group
1000 Things to Write About
Each day I will be adding a new thing to write about and an example. Add some of your own or write with me.
Glenda Pompa joined Barry Lane's group
Handouts in the Cloud
Here you will find many great handouts on writing from Barry Lane , Gretchen Bernabei and others. Just download and start using them.See More
Wacky We-Search
Here is a place to post your Wacky We-search Reports. Post each report as a new discussion, or if you are a teacher you can post similar reports in the same blog ie: Drug Ads etc.. Can't wait to see all the examples.See More
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