This is something I am doing everyday with my students. I am hoping that their writing projects this year can potentially serve as a preliminary writing portfolio.

Monitoring #comprehension is a critical skill for both students who are still learning to decode and those who have become proficient decoders but are not yet actively making meaning while they read edutopia owl.li/eKve30nYwXW #edchat #reading #elemchat

CCCC members: take part in the Wikipedia Initiative! The core goal of the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative is to foster the community building necessary for our profession to develop high-quality Wikipedia articles related to our research and areas of expertise. cccc.ncte.org/cccc/wikipedia…

Have an idea for a journal article or book manuscript? National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)_cccc, TYCA, and @ncte editors will be holding office hours throughout #4C19 in the Action Hub (West Atrium). Stop by to pitch an idea and to hear about their plans for upcoming publications.

#4C19 has been amazing so far, and we're already thinking about next year. The Call for Proposals for #4C20 is now open. Proposals are due 11:59 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 6, 2019. cccc.ncte.org/cccc/call-2020

#Writing Showcase: Friday, May 3. From 4:00 to 6:45 pm @ East Hall. #BGwrites

It’s the time of the year; we’re all stressed out.Profs are grading,#UICEmajors are taking exams & writing essays.This is why it’s*so*gratifying for ⁦UIC English⁩ profs like Scott Grunow to get notes like this from his class.Bravo ⁦@⁩UICLAS ⁦⁦⁦@SusanPoserUIC⁩

You know you’re a good teacher when: 1) Your students tell you that you should have a lecture hall of 400 students every semester. 2) they spend 15 minutes telling you about how they were yelling at their computers because your classes got waitlisted and closed. #whyiteach