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Instructional Coaching with Building Better Writers 

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 by nheckman

“Teachers get inspired and excited about the resource in the session, but the real magic happens when we support implementation… Read more Instructional Coaching with Building Better Writers 

Over-scaffolding for Secondary Newcomers 

Posted on August 27, 2024August 28, 2024 by nheckman

I am a secondary English language learner, and as a secondary English language learner, I can only distinguish about half… Read more Over-scaffolding for Secondary Newcomers 

Morphological Cross-Linguistic Connections

Posted on August 22, 2023August 23, 2023 by nheckman

Cross-Linguistic Connections? But I don’t speak my students’ language!  I learned English from a Russian-speaking professor in a class of… Read more Morphological Cross-Linguistic Connections

I guess I am not that exciting!

Posted on July 3, 2023July 4, 2023 by nheckman

A teacher who does magic tricks. A teacher who raps. A teacher who does impersonations.  And of course everyone’s favorite-… Read more I guess I am not that exciting!

What do you do for grammar?

Posted on May 19, 2023May 19, 2023 by nheckman

Step 1.  Watch the webinar here. I shared 3 principles of effective sentence-level mini-lessons. The graphic below is from my… Read more What do you do for grammar?

In Anticipation of Building Better Writers

Posted on April 8, 2023April 11, 2023 by nheckman

BBW is coming!  In a couple of days, ten people will receive the Advanced Review Copy of my book Building… Read more In Anticipation of Building Better Writers

Using Sentence Tiles to Enhance Students’ Writing

Posted on March 1, 2023March 3, 2023 by nheckman

Building sentences out of sentence tiles is a great way to enhance syntax instruction and to help the students develop… Read more Using Sentence Tiles to Enhance Students’ Writing

A Fun Writing Project for the Secondary Language Learners: A Coach Interview

Posted on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by nheckman

Looking back at the years of teaching writing to English learners, I recall some projects that kids and I truly… Read more A Fun Writing Project for the Secondary Language Learners: A Coach Interview

What did Dr. Stephen Krashen REALLY say about GRAMMAR?

Posted on January 29, 2023January 29, 2023 by nheckman

Stephen Krashen’s 5 SLA hypotheses are in every SLA textbook. However, in a teacher prep course, we may only get… Read more What did Dr. Stephen Krashen REALLY say about GRAMMAR?

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker: Part 2

Posted on August 23, 2022September 18, 2022 by nheckman

Are babies linguistic geniuses? Why as adults we lose the mysterious gift of language acquisition that children seem to possess?… Read more The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker: Part 2

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