Topic: Heart Maps

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Heart maps help students explore and process feelings. Included are heart mapping at home activities and videos from Georgia Heard.

Heart Maps Ted Talk

How do we get students to “ache with caring” about their writing instead of mechanically stringing words together? We spend a lot of time teaching the craft of writing but we also need to devote time to helping students write with purpose and meaning.

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Spring 2017 round up of Heinemann podcasts.

Teacher Appreciation: Georgia Heard Reflects on The Great Advice of a Teacher

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When you create heart map playlists with students, they access moments that might become poems or memoirs or even the anchors to essays they didn’t realize were inside of them, waiting to be written.

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"The power of all art, poetry in general, and heart mapping in particular, is how it captures, illuminates, and sustains what matters." - Nancie Atwell

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In today's podcast we speak with Georgia about what heart maps are and why they're so helpful for children as writers.