lab site · professional development · staff development

Make Lab Sites Meaningful

General tips for literacy coaches to use when facilitating writing workshop lab sites.

celebration · commenting · feedback · personal narrative · publishing · writing workshop

We Are The Authors: Publishing Decisions

When it's time to publish, the classroom teacher has many decisions to consider!

slice of life

Write. Share. Give.

Come share your story today!

conferring · writing workshop

Five Words to Get You Started with Conferring

Keep this conferring tip in your back pocket.

writing workshop

Quiet Writers: What do they really need?

Hiding in the piles of writing were quiet writers, whose empty folders cried out for help. These writers became my focus for the next two weeks, and this post. Quiet writers cry out for help in all our classrooms. Reading the work of the writers in our room was just the beginning; teaching the writer demands conversation with the writer.

reflections · writing workshop

End of Workshop Share & Reflection Time

Kids learn more when they are given time to reflect on their learning, self-assess, and check in on goals they are working toward. That's what the end of workshop share and reflection time is for, and too often it gets cut short, or left out completely.

personal essay

Stepping Into Personal Essay

GAH! I've never taught an essay unit! Watch me stumble, watch me fall, and watch me pick up all the pieces as they come together!

primary grades · spelling · writing workshop

Brave Spelling

How can we encourage our youngest writers to use brave spelling? How can we help them overcome their fear of getting it wrong?

writing · writing workshop

Demonstration Writing: Sometimes They Need To See “Writing Thinking”

Making my writing thinking visible to my students has given them another tool to “get unstuck”...

slice of life

It’s Tuesday! Write. Share. Give

Come join the slicing community and share your story today.

Tweet Roundup

Writing Tweet Round-up

Check out Stacey's end-of-the-month curated collection of writing Tweets!

holiday · thankful

Happy Thanksgiving!

On behalf of the co-author team, I'd like to thank you for your dedication to the writers you teach. As the eight of us know, the work of a teacher of writers is never done. There are always minilessons to write, new strategies to try, and drafts to be read. For all that you do… Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving!