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tweenteacher.com » concrete http://tweenteacher.com Heather Wolpert-Gawron Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Carnival #178 is in town! http://tweenteacher.com/2008/07/02/the-carnival-178-is-in-town/ http://tweenteacher.com/2008/07/02/the-carnival-178-is-in-town/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:49:35 +0000 heather http://tweenteacher.com/?p=102 An (aspiring) Educator is hosting this week’s Carnival of Education #178. I’ve tweaked my How to Take Control of Your Teaching list and although it’s still in an evolving state, you can read it here. Enjoy the Carnival and the post.

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I wanted to share an activity I did the day before testing this year. I had the students do a Quickwrite into their Writer’s Journals. The sentence stem began as follows:

“I am going to kick the CST’s butt. I am so ready! I will…” (...)
Read the rest of Building Confidence as Test Prep: Part II (334 words)

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