Help Kids Move from Ideas to Words: A Conversation With a Colleague

Sarah Valter, one of our TWTBlog co-authors, joins Melanie this week to discuss ways to inspire word explorers, the children in our classrooms who, for various reasons, need additional support or scaffolding to commit words to the page.

For more inspiration, check out these books, podcast episodes, and blog posts:

• Discover What Writers REALLY Need By Kidwatching
• Embrace an Asset-Based Approach: A Digging Deeper Dialogue
• Every Child Can Write: Entry Points, Bridges, and Pathways for Striving Writers by Melanie Meehan
• Example of using video in the classroom for narrative storytelling
• Word Explorers

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