It's hard to believe that the end of the school year is already in sight. In the schools I where I currently work, mid-June is the end of the year--that's just four weeks away! That means it's time to begin planning for next year!
Year: 2015
ICYMI: Conferring Toolkits Blog Series
In case you missed it! Check out our posts on conferring toolkits.
Conferring Toolkits: Mentor Texts
Two elements form the very heart of every conference: the student, and the mentor text I can use to nudge her writing piece forward. ...
Conferring Toolkits: Record Keeping
Handwritten vs. Digital? How do you keep records of your conferences?
Conferring Toolkits: Cheat Sheets
Add some cheat sheets to your Conferring Toolkits
Conferring Toolkits: Creating Visuals for Teaching Tools
In the case of explaining a strategy, a tip, or a writing insight, a picture is often worth a thousand words. Or more!
Conferring Toolkits: Supplies and How to Use Them
Here's a list of things in my conferring toolkit! What's in yours?
Slice of Life Tuesday
Write, Share, Give
Conferring Toolkits: Class Stories, Shared Writing and Interactive Writing
Whether it's storytelling, or shared writing, or interactive writing, any piece of writing that your whole class created together is going to be extremely helpful to have at your fingertips while you are moving about the classroom conferring.
Blog Series: A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits
This week my friends and I at Two Writing Teachers will take you on a tour of our writing toolkits. You won't want to miss a single post this week!
Want to write for TWT?
We're expanding our co-author team to include another one (or two) classroom teacher voices. If you're interested, please fill out the form contained in this post by Friday, May 15th.
Putting Into Practice What I Learned about Authentic Information Writing From Ralph Fletcher
The Monday morning after Ralph Fletcher’s presentation on Authentic Information Writing at Vassar College, I gathered my sixth graders at our reading area and shared what I had heard and learned....

