Oona Marie Abrams
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Lead Literacy Learner. Collector of words. Lover of all modes and genres of reading and writing. #ThesisoftheWeek #Freadom #WriteBesideThem https://poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/introducing-thesis-of-week-for-2025.html
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Introducing Thesis of the Week for the 2025-2026 School Year
I've created Thesis of the Week as a resource for teachers to utilize as they wish. It is intended to offer students low-risk practice oppo...
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Launching a resource that I hope helps ELA teachers! Thesis of the Week = low-risk formative literary analysis practice. Weekly poems & practice w/ thesis statements are NOT for a formal grade, but intended to grow students' writing efficacy. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
@penguinschoollib.bsky.social Thanks for the #bookmail 💗
January 31, 2026 at 9:14 PM
@penguinschoollib.bsky.social Thanks for the #bookmail 💗
Looking forward to reading new titles in 2026, and reflecting on the great reads of 2025! What's on your list to read in the new year? #BookLove #TitleTalk #ShelfieTalk #celchat #nctechat #BuildYourStack @ncte.org
January 1, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Looking forward to reading new titles in 2026, and reflecting on the great reads of 2025! What's on your list to read in the new year? #BookLove #TitleTalk #ShelfieTalk #celchat #nctechat #BuildYourStack @ncte.org
I have a 19 year old who was a first grader in 2012. What amazing young adults might these beautiful babies have grown up to become? 🙏 #NeverForget
December 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I have a 19 year old who was a first grader in 2012. What amazing young adults might these beautiful babies have grown up to become? 🙏 #NeverForget
Third and final #ThesisoftheWeek for December is inspired by Stuart Kestenbaum's poem "Prayer for the Dead." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeWriting #WritingtoLearn #celchat #nctechat #2ndaryELA #Poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
December 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Third and final #ThesisoftheWeek for December is inspired by Stuart Kestenbaum's poem "Prayer for the Dead." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeWriting #WritingtoLearn #celchat #nctechat #2ndaryELA #Poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
The second #ThesisoftheWeek for December is based on "Myth of the Vanishing Indian" by Rena Priest. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice #2ndaryELA #celchat #nctechat #poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The second #ThesisoftheWeek for December is based on "Myth of the Vanishing Indian" by Rena Priest. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice #2ndaryELA #celchat #nctechat #poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
In November, I got my Bluetooth headphones replaced. When my last pair broke, I thought I’d just make do with listening directly from my phone when I was doing chores. Welp, I think the data shows that I listen to more books when I have the headphones. 7/9 = audio #ReadingWrap #readingaccess 1/2
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In November, I got my Bluetooth headphones replaced. When my last pair broke, I thought I’d just make do with listening directly from my phone when I was doing chores. Welp, I think the data shows that I listen to more books when I have the headphones. 7/9 = audio #ReadingWrap #readingaccess 1/2
December's first #ThesisoftheWeek is inspired by "Kindness" by Anya Silver. Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #2ndaryELA #CELChat #edchat #formativeassessment #writingpractice #poetry #formativewriting #writingtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
December's first #ThesisoftheWeek is inspired by "Kindness" by Anya Silver. Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #2ndaryELA #CELChat #edchat #formativeassessment #writingpractice #poetry #formativewriting #writingtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Last #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by "It Matters," by Laura Foley, which pays homage to Mary Oliver. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #2ndaryELA #WriteBesideThem #PracticeMakesProgress
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November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Last #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by "It Matters," by Laura Foley, which pays homage to Mary Oliver. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #2ndaryELA #WriteBesideThem #PracticeMakesProgress
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The third #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by Natalie Goldberg's poem "Home." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #2ndaryELA #PoetryasPractice #WritingPractice
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November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The third #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by Natalie Goldberg's poem "Home." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #2ndaryELA #PoetryasPractice #WritingPractice
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No spoilers on the new Pluribus show on AppleTV, but the author signing event is ON POINT 😂
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
No spoilers on the new Pluribus show on AppleTV, but the author signing event is ON POINT 😂
Educators & authors on a Saturday learning together! Thanks to folks who came to sessions on #nonfiction #visualliteracies and #independentreading What a pleasure to join a community who wants to innovate and grow professionally because #kidsdeserveit #nerdcampli #mypersonalpd #edchat #kidlit
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Educators & authors on a Saturday learning together! Thanks to folks who came to sessions on #nonfiction #visualliteracies and #independentreading What a pleasure to join a community who wants to innovate and grow professionally because #kidsdeserveit #nerdcampli #mypersonalpd #edchat #kidlit
The first #ThesisoftheWeek for November is up on the #PoetryasPractice Blog. This week's poem is "Gate C22" by Ellen Bass. #writingpractice #formativeassessments #writetolearn #writetothink #createtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The first #ThesisoftheWeek for November is up on the #PoetryasPractice Blog. This week's poem is "Gate C22" by Ellen Bass. #writingpractice #formativeassessments #writetolearn #writetothink #createtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
TGIF! Just got home to my favorite kind of mail: book mail! Penguin Random House sent me this advance reader copy.
October 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
TGIF! Just got home to my favorite kind of mail: book mail! Penguin Random House sent me this advance reader copy.
October's final #ThesisoftheWeek is up! This week's poem is "Dust" by Danusha Lameris. #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
October's final #ThesisoftheWeek is up! This week's poem is "Dust" by Danusha Lameris. #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice docs.google.com/document/d/1...
First time presenting at NJSBA. What a gift it is every day to work with these amazing ladies. And a joy to share our journey with others and build our PLN! #professionallearning #NJEd #edleadership #presenttolearn
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
First time presenting at NJSBA. What a gift it is every day to work with these amazing ladies. And a joy to share our journey with others and build our PLN! #professionallearning #NJEd #edleadership #presenttolearn
How apropos! I've finished reading & writing beside this brilliant book this AM for National Day on Writing! 30 notebook pages on my writing identity, why writing matters now more than ever, and the whats, whys & hows of the process #WhyIWrite #MyPersonalPD #PDBookClub #AmWriting #NCTEChat #CELChat
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
How apropos! I've finished reading & writing beside this brilliant book this AM for National Day on Writing! 30 notebook pages on my writing identity, why writing matters now more than ever, and the whats, whys & hows of the process #WhyIWrite #MyPersonalPD #PDBookClub #AmWriting #NCTEChat #CELChat
#ThesisoftheWeek for Week 3 of October is inspired by a beautiful poem by Marjorie Saiser entitled "Crane Migration: Platte River." Find this prompt & others on the Poetry as Practice Blog! (Photo credits: Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy & USGS) poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
#ThesisoftheWeek for Week 3 of October is inspired by a beautiful poem by Marjorie Saiser entitled "Crane Migration: Platte River." Find this prompt & others on the Poetry as Practice Blog! (Photo credits: Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy & USGS) poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Tom Newkirk said it ages ago in The Art of Slow Reading. The act of reading is the act of forgetting. We can’t remember it all. We have to decide what to forget…
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Tim Dowling: I love books – but can’t remember anything about the ones I’ve just read
In bed I lie awake, staring at the books on my nightstand, trying to remember a single salient fact about any of them
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October 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Tom Newkirk said it ages ago in The Art of Slow Reading. The act of reading is the act of forgetting. We can’t remember it all. We have to decide what to forget…
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The latest #ThesisoftheWeek has been posted on my Poetry as Practice blog. This week's stimulus text is "Bread" by Richard Levine. Use and share if you would like! poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The latest #ThesisoftheWeek has been posted on my Poetry as Practice blog. This week's stimulus text is "Bread" by Richard Levine. Use and share if you would like! poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Job perk! Our middle school ELA, ESL, and special services teachers got to book shop for high-interest informational nonfiction this week. #BuildYourStack #ShelfieTalk #TitleTalk #BookLove #Nonfiction 📚🤓📖🛋️🛒🎒
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Job perk! Our middle school ELA, ESL, and special services teachers got to book shop for high-interest informational nonfiction this week. #BuildYourStack #ShelfieTalk #TitleTalk #BookLove #Nonfiction 📚🤓📖🛋️🛒🎒
Love that the Papermill offered our staff the opportunity to come and see this! Such fun last evening. #lovewhereyoulive
October 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Love that the Papermill offered our staff the opportunity to come and see this! Such fun last evening. #lovewhereyoulive
This week's #ThesisoftheWeek is based on the poem "Bending Sound" by Paula Gordon Lepp. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This week's #ThesisoftheWeek is based on the poem "Bending Sound" by Paula Gordon Lepp. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Ya know… just an average day hangin with Jay McTighe #fangirling #understandingbydesign #curriculum #nerdgirl #proudnerd #curriculumnerd
October 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Ya know… just an average day hangin with Jay McTighe #fangirling #understandingbydesign #curriculum #nerdgirl #proudnerd #curriculumnerd
Reposted by Oona Marie Abrams
Agree 100%. I'd say more, but I don't want to give away the lie.
Today, I wrote about two truths and a lie about AI in the classroom…I’m here to talk about it + hear about what you are seeing lately too 🙂
#AIinEducation #EduskyAI #Writing #GenAI
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#AIinEducation #EduskyAI #Writing #GenAI
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Two Truths and a Lie About AI
Here are three statements: Can you figure out which two are true? Students will try to cheat with AI. Students need help reasoning on their AI usage. Students talk to their teachers about their AI …
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October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Agree 100%. I'd say more, but I don't want to give away the lie.