At Long-View, learners are daily entangled in words, obsessed with writing, and bewitched by books. During literacy block, learners across age and experience grow to feel and understand that writing and reading are essential to who we are as individuals and as a learning community. We are not just people who do the acts of reading and writing; we are readers and writers. Literacy block is serious work, but it is seriously fun.

What do we mean by the reading life and the writing life?

We fundamentally believe that reading and writing are inextricably linked to who we are…

literacyLisa ZapalacSeptember 18, 2018Long-View Micro Schoolreading life, writing life

First Writing Unit of Study Comes To A Close

Today we celebrated how far we've come as writers in our first unit of study this year. Since the beginning of school, we have been studying, writing, exploring, telling, and revising personal narratives. We started with the idea that authors write stories from their lives and they are always collecting story ideas in their "idea file." We learned to live our lives as writers, noticing the meaningful moments all around us. Then, we studied mentor authors like Jane Yolen, Vera B. Williams, and Angela Johnson to learn how these authors magnify details for their readers and how they use craft moves to bring their stories to life....

literacyLisa ZapalacOctober 25, 2016Long-View Micro Schoolwriting life, writing, narratives

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