Rebekah O'Dell
@rebekahodell1.bsky.social
Full-Time Teacher, Author, Consultant movingwriters.org movingwriters.substack.com
For multilingual learners, discussion has an extra layer: finding the words while the conversation keeps moving. Our latest blog post shares four small shifts that help without lowering the demand. lilypd.wm.edu/blog/support...
Strategy Spotlight: Supporting Multilingual Learners in Civil Discourse
Support multilingual learners in civil discourse with four classroom-ready shifts—sentence stems, thinking time, translanguaging, and more.
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Elaboration strategies — elaborative interrogation (asking why and how) and analogy crafting — make information stick for students in the longterm. Check out these classroom activities! Read more: lilypd.wm.edu/blog/elabora...
Teaching Takeaway: The Benefits of Elaboration
Try elaborative interrogation and analogy-crafting — two elaboration strategies that help students connect new content to what they already know.
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a FREE three-tiered resource for making primary sources accessible for multilingual learners! lilypd.wm.edu/blog/primary...
See It, Name It, Prove It: Making Primary Sources Click for Multilingual Learners
Scaffold primary source analysis for multilingual learners without lowering rigor — try the Source Snapshot routine: See It, Name It, Prove It.
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This year, the Moving Writers Community is going to be learning about the science of reading, what it has to do with secondary students, and trying practical strategies in our classrooms. Get started with us! movingwriters.substack.com/p/2026-2027-...
I’m so excited about the work lilyPD is doing to make high quality professional development that respects teachers. Check out our latest blog. lilypd.wm.edu/blog/5-ways-...
5 Ways to Weave lilyPD into Your School's PD Ecosystem
5 Ways to Weave lilyPD into Your School’s PD Ecosystem As a school leader, you already know the challenge: professional development time is precious, schedules are packed, and the needs of your teache...
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At #NCTE26, I’ll be at #poetry roundtables with this crew 🤩: @joelrgarza.bsky.social @rebekahodell1.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social @thereadingzone.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social @cayneletizia.bsky.social @xochitlbentley.bsky.social and more!
So excited to share my new book is out in the world! It's beautiful, but it's also SO practical -- including videos to show your students, workbook reproducibles to print. I can't wait for you to see it! Available from Solution Tree or on Amazon! www.solutiontree.com/mini-moves-f...
Mini Moves for Every Writer
Whether used in classrooms or across the district, this source will provide a path to successful writing instruction in content areas like mathematics, science, and history. Educators using this guide...
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I wish I had Brett’s wisdom last year….if you teach writing, this is a must-read.
Brett Vogelsinger@thevogelman.bsky.social · last yr.Cheating with #AI in English class is a big problem, but here are four helpful lines I use to get kids talking and valuing their own voice. Maybe you’ll find some to adapt and use next school year 🙂 @rebekahodell1.bsky.social @corwinpress.bsky.social movingwriters.org/2025/06/23/w...
Cheating with #AI in English class is a big problem, but here are four helpful lines I use to get kids talking and valuing their own voice. Maybe you’ll find some to adapt and use next school year 🙂 @rebekahodell1.bsky.social @corwinpress.bsky.social movingwriters.org/2025/06/23/w...
When AI Wrote the Essay: Four Strategies for Addressing AI Cheating with Students
What can we say to students when they turn in writing that was clearly manufactured by AI?
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When your math-teacher-bestie takes your latest book obsession on location with her for a reading sesh. @katemessner.com
New post up at Moving Writers about how I teach my students to build a metaphor throughout a college entrance essay! movingwriters.org/2025/03/25/m... #mentortexts @rebekahodell1.bsky.social
Metaphor as an Organizing Force in the College Entrance Essay
March 25, 2025 The college entrance essay: Should we teach it or shouldn’t we? This year, the guidance department of our high school, New Directions Secondary School in the Bronx, NY, asked m…
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Join us at the Moving Writers Community this summer for 10 weeks of PLANNING together for the 2025-2026 school year! open.substack.com/pub/movingwr...
Announcing Our 2025 Summer of Planning!
A summer full of FREE PD for Moving Writers Community Members!
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Loved working with Grasslands teachers and seeing together how #minimoves can quickly transform writing! amzn.to/4ivpelv #ABeducation #ela #english #edusky
Some happy news to share! www.amazon.com/Mini-Moves-E...
Mini Moves for Every Writer: Fifty Transferable Techniques for Writing Across the Content Areas (Writing strategies to build stronger student writers)
Mini Moves for Every Writer: Fifty Transferable Techniques for Writing Across the Content Areas (Writing strategies to build stronger student writers) [Sam Futrell, Rebekah O’Dell] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mini Moves for Every Writer: Fifty Transferable Techniques for Writing Across the Content Areas (Writing strategies to build stronger student writers)
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My brain is a little bit broken right now, and I need some suggestions: a text to teach above-level 7th grade readers with a focus on character analysis. Help?
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Artful AI Moves for Teaching Writing
As a teacher of writing during the last two years, you have probably experienced what Brett Vogelsinger describes as "a tilt-a-whirl of emotions" surrounding artificial intelligence as you grapple wit...
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I have questions about the San Diego Quick Assessment of Reading Ability. Anyone use it? Or know anything about it?
"The goal of a flash draft is *not* to do incredible writing," reminds educator @rebekahodell1.bsky.social "The goal is ... to overcome our fear of the blank page." Here's how she supports her Ss in achieving it:
@thevogelman.bsky.social has a new book coming out this year about AI and writing instruction! And he's hosting a Moving Writers webinar about it next month! movingwriters.org/2025/01/13/a...
Artful AI for Writing Instruction: A New Live Event!
Our dear Brett Vogelsinger has a NEW BOOK coming to the world in 2025 — all about using not fighting AI in our writing instruction. He’s hosting a new live (and recorded) webinar next m…
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