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Old Tech — New Trek

I am a Mac Tech geek, and still today I provided my 5- 8 grade students with basic technology: a writer’s notebook. I’ve been sharing my physical journal with the kids with ideas from Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi’s Lessons for the Writer’s Notebook. It’s a terrific resource. The student’s have been asking all week, [...]

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