
Back to School
I’ve culled the TWT archives for posts you might want to read during the first month of the school year.
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I’ve culled the TWT archives for posts you might want to read during the first month of the school year.
After your students decorate their writer’s notebooks and you review your expectations, the notebooks go home. This is exciting! Who doesn’t love writing in a new notebook?!!? I’ll tell ya, … Continue Reading You don’t have to write, you get to write.
Launching writer’s notebooks by giving kids a peek into my own
What goals will you set for your practice this year? Here are a few suggestions.
It’s all about the link. Make sure your minilessons link to ongoing work. Link to making choices. Link to all the other minilessons. Link to the charts and resources in the room. Most of all link your minilesson always to problem solving and independence.
What is the breakdown of your first two-three weeks of workshop? Here’s a peek into my plans for my kindergarten students.
Please write your Slice of Life Story, share your link, and give at least 3 comments to other Slicers.
Wouldn’t it be great to escape for a few days to just write? Oh, do I have a place for you! You won’t have to cook a single meal, it’s tranquil, there’s wifi, AND it’s affordable.
A list of beginning of the year read aloud books to set a positive climate and kick start your workshop.
Over the summer, we catch up on professional reading, we organize our classrooms, we make plans. In our reading and our planning, we imagine the very best possible scenarios. We see … Continue Reading Table Conferences: An Important Coaching Move at the Start of the Year
Last week I wrote a post titled How To Plan A Minilesson From Scratch, and I outlined a very simple way to plan minilessons, based on the work of my wonderful colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Now, I am going to backtrack a bit and revisit just a teensy weensy bit of what I said. I wrote, “Every minilesson can pretty much go the same way.” And this is absolutely true, most of the time. Except for those times when it’s not true.
Interactive Writing? Yeah, I wasn’t a believer. I will admit this openly; I had kind of fought against it and did not see it working in my classroom until many … Continue Reading Interactive Writing: Don’t Close the Door
Please write your Slice of Life Story, share your link, and give at least 3 comments to other Slicers.
Need some inspiration to write? Fall into a great book and read like a writer!
Want to help your students focus better during independent writing time? A recent NY Times piece by Daniel J. Levitin may hold the key to making this happen in your classroom.
Stop lurking and start writing. It is the single most important thing you can do as a teacher of writing. It matters.
Want some fresh ways to channel your students to write about history? This post offers some light and fast tips that could easily be turned into weighty and meaningful instruction.
Minilessons are actually really easy to plan, and fun to teach. What? You don’t believe me? Let me show you, right now, how to do it.
Sometimes you just have to start over.
It’s Tuesday – time to share your Slice with the Two Writing Teachers Community. Here is a chart from last week’s Teachers College Reading and Writing Project August Writing Institute … Continue Reading WRITE. SHARE. GIVE. IT’S SOL TIME.