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Ruth Nathan

The WordBox Lesson

Introduction

5 min readMar 15, 2024

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The WordBox

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Ruth Nathan

It’s More Than Turning Lemons in Lemonade: The Usefulness of NowComment in the Classroom as Seen…

Introduction: I am a retired school teacher and now a retired Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley (2023), but my life as a scholar is far from…

10 min readFeb 16, 2024

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Ruth Nathan

Moving from a Subject (matter) to an Idea, Lesson Two: Realizing James Moffett’s Language-learning…

With a Focus on the “Difficult Conversations” of our Time*

6 min readJun 16, 2023

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The Bessboro Home for Mothers and Children in Ireland

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Ruth Nathan

Moving from a Subject (matter) to an Idea: Realizing James Moffett’s Language-learning Theory in…

RUTH NATHAN, WITH WENDY SAUL AND GILLIAN MERTENS

6 min readJun 6, 2023

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Ruth Nathan

Writing Family Stories: An Exercise for the Times

Purpose

7 min readApr 20, 2020

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Writing Family Stories: An Exercise for the Times

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Ruth Nathan

Literature Study Circles: Reading/Writing/Thinking about Literature

Authors’ Note: This post is part of an on-going project that will eventually include fifty chapters offering best practices across the…

10 min readApr 9, 2020

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Literature Study Circles: Reading/Writing/Thinking about Literature

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Ruth Nathan

Cognitive, Social and Emotional Skills Linked to Literature Study Circles* and Outcomes

As interpreted by the author from K. D. Samway and G. Whang, Literature Study Circles in a Multicultural Classroom, Stenhouse, 1996, and…

4 min readApr 9, 2020

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Cognitive, Social and Emotional Skills Linked to Literature Study Circles* and Outcomes

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Ruth Nathan

Fabulous Fridays: Memorizing and Performing Poems

Ruth Nathan, Ph.D. and Mary Ann Frishman, with Roz Warren

9 min readApr 1, 2020

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Fabulous Fridays: Memorizing and Performing Poems

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Ruth Nathan

One Way to Use Close Reading in Writing Workshop

Authors: Ruth Nathan, Ph.D. and Mary Ann Frishman

7 min readMar 16, 2020

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One Way to Use Close Reading in Writing Workshop

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Ruth Nathan

Vocabulary Development and the Morph-O-Meter

Student Exploration of Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes, with Thanks to Mary Colgan McNamara and her Team

9 min readMar 9, 2020

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Vocabulary Development and the Morph-O-Meter

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Ruth Nathan

Ruth Nathan

I travel in the world of universities (UC) and public schools— a visiting professor and school teacher who writes about enjoyable, research-based strategies.

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