Dear Teachers: What Do Bilingual Writers Do?

Dear teachers,

It’s a morning in January, and we’ve been committed to a writers' workshop for five months now. Fifth-grade students are confident in their role as authors and take their job of creating and sharing their voice very seriously. Our room is buzzing as students write in their journals and use oral language to…

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Kari Johnston
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