310: Writing Belongs in Your Literacy Block (Here's How)

Part 5: Your Literacy Block Series In this episode of our Your Literacy Block series, Emily is talking all about writing— and why it deserves a place in every upper elementary literacy block. Many teachers think of writing as essays, state testing, and lengthy writing projects.... but writing can be so much more than that. When students write about what they read, they deepen comprehension, organize their thinking, and make their learning visible. In this episode, you'll learn: • Why writing and reading are so closely connected • The importance of sentence-level writin...