june planning

Planning for the Planning

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!

A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits Blog Series · conferring · writing workshop

ICYMI: Conferring Toolkits Blog Series

In case you missed it! Check out our posts on conferring toolkits.

A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits Blog Series · conferring · mentor texts

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. ...

A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits Blog Series · conferring · record keeping

Conferring Toolkits: Record Keeping

Handwritten vs. Digital? How do you keep records of your conferences?

A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits Blog Series · conferring · writing workshop

Conferring Toolkits: Cheat Sheets

Add some cheat sheets to your Conferring Toolkits

A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits Blog Series

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!

A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits Blog Series · conferring · writing workshop

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 Story Challenge

Slice of Life Tuesday

Write, Share, Give

conferring · shared writing · storytelling · writing workshop

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.

A Peek Inside Conferring Toolkits Blog Series · writing workshop

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!

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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.

nonfiction

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....