Category: Writing

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MaWSiG Webinar Materials

My heartfelt gratitude to all the teachers who attended our webinar. Below, you will find pdf files of my presentation and a lovely handout with links to the tools and resources you’ll need to enhance your students’ writing. Good luck and may you all enjoy a happy school year!

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Below you will find the AI output for the writing tasks we discussed:

https://katherinereilly.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/01-produce-writing-topic.docx

https://katherinereilly.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/02-scaffolding.docx

https://katherinereilly.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/03-critical-thinking-story-with-open-ending.docx

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How to Use a Semicolon

It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that’s why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we’re confused about how to use them properly. Emma Bryce clarifies best practices for the semi-confusing semicolon. Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Karrot Entertainment.