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Year: 2015
Writing Workshop Feels Better with Less
Our workshop was feeling forced, unnatural, and just rushed! We struggled to fit it all in and share time (the most valued time) was cut short with only 1 or 2 writers sharing each day. Something had to give. Writers weren't growing, I wasn't conferring, and it just didn't feel calm and productive. I reflected on our workshop, the work of the writers, and the choices I was making, but I couldn't figure out what was making me feel so unsettled.
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Conferring with Writers is Like Coaching Skiers: Strength ID and Enhancement
Many years ago, one of my first jobs was as a ski instructor at a local ski resort. During our instructor training, we were taught a technique called "strength identification and enhancement."
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Writers ARE Readers: A Review and a Giveaway
Writers ARE Readers explores the connection between reading and writing instruction.
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Come Join the Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge on #TWTBlog
“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.” ― Cynthia Rylant, In… Continue reading Come Join the Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge on #TWTBlog
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ICYMI: Diving into Information Writing Blog Series Recap
A recap of this week's blog series, in case you missed it.
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Using The Writer’s Notebook To Grow Ideas:Diving Into Information Writing
Start students on the road to thinking about topics they might become interested in researching and writing about from day one.
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Writing Information Books with Voice and Beauty: Diving Into Information Writing Blog Series
When I was a kid, our town library had a whole special room filled with children's books. It was one of my favorite places in the world. That was where I fell in love with Corduroy, and Caps for Sale, Where the Wild Things Are, and later, Matilda, and Superfudge, and The Babysitters Club. But another thing I remember about… Continue reading Writing Information Books with Voice and Beauty: Diving Into Information Writing Blog Series
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Infusing Information Writing Throughout the Day: Diving Into Information Writing
A recovering hater of information writing, this post is my first step towards bringing information writing to life for my third graders! It is a vision and collection of possibliities for infusing information writing across the curriculum through the day.
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Narrative Nonfiction: Diving Into Information Writing Blog Series
Stretch your students' knowledge of information writing by trying a unit of narrative nonfiction.
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Immersion and Connections: Diving Into Informational Writing
This is when I realized all the writing we do shares this goal: making sense of the world and being passionate about learning. We are immersed in writing to make sense of the world and who we are in this big world. We are writing about things we know a lot about; ourselves, our families, our pets, our favorite things, favorite foods, and the list goes on and on. We ARE writing to making sense of who we are while imparting information about ourselves to our community. This sounds a lot like informational writing at it’s most basic level.
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Teacher-Written Mentor Texts: Diving into Information Writing
I've long believed teacher-written texts can serve as excellent mentor texts during a unit of study. While I'm a huge advocate of student-written mentor texts, sometimes student writing doesn't have everything we need it to contain. We can tailor our own writing to our units of study. We can do this because we can be… Continue reading Teacher-Written Mentor Texts: Diving into Information Writing
