Welcome to the weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge. Write your story, share it, and then comment on other posts.
Year: 2020
Providing Tools for Writing and Sharing Writing Through the Pandemic
Calling all primary writing teachers. Today Janet Ahn shares how she worked with her Kindergarteners to continue thrive in writing workshop through the pandemic. These young scholars continued to draft pieces, engage in conferring, collaborate to mark up mentor texts, and publish their writing through online platforms. Their dedication to continuing the writing workshop virtually was a reflection of how they truly saw themselves as writers.
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September 11, 2020
Each year, Two Writing Teachers Blog pauses to mark the events of September 11, 2001. It's hard to believe it's been 19 years. However you choose to honor the loss and the heroism of so many, we are with you.
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Exploring Character Traits with Reflective Journal Prompts
A back to school 2020 problem for those of us teaching in person- what do you do during masks breaks? A reflective journal that connects to character traits was my solution! Read on for resources I am sharing that match character traits with read alouds and reflective journal prompts.
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Three Quick Tips for Maximizing Time at the Beginning of a Virtual Writing Workshop
Students in digitial writing workshops need to be focused and ready from the moment they enter the remote classroom space. Here are three tips you can use with your students to get writing workshop underway so you don't lose time waiting for students to arrive, find pencils, etc.
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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge
Welcome to the weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge. Write your story, share it, and then comment on other posts. For many of the community members, writing is the way to make meaning. Brené Brown reminds me of the importance of creating in order to cultivate meaning.
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At-Home Learning Resources Teachers Can Share With Families: Choices for Writing
Now's our time to shine workshop teachers! Hasn't independence and transfer always been the goal of workshop teaching? Haven't we always strived to teach in a way that allows students to carry on without us? Here are some resources to collaborate with families and caregivers to make this year successful.
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Building Stronger Writing Partners
As schools begin to restart, I have been thinking a lot about ways to begin building community within our new COVID reality. Specifically, I have been thinking about ways we as teachers might harness the structure of writing partnerships as a means by which to help create meaningful, supportive connections between writers. Here are a few ideas . . .
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Thinking About and Honoring Individual Writing Processes
Some great and reflective conversations could happen if students consider both their current writing processes and how to change them in order to become more productive.
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It’s Tuesday! Welcome to the Slice of Life Story Challenge.
How is it September? This morning's quote for inspiration is from Chadwick Boseman. Sometimes the ritual of slicing on Tuesday is pressure, but it also inspires me to live and cherish moments differently. “You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.”-Chadwick Boseman Write… Continue reading It’s Tuesday! Welcome to the Slice of Life Story Challenge.
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10 Strategies to Help Keep All Students Learning and Growing, Especially EALs
There are many strategies we can use to help us be the best teachers we can be for all of our students, but keeping good strategies in the forefront can be especially helpful for EAL students. By adding some simple strategies, we can also help EALs enjoy rich and meaningful learning experiences in the classroom.
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A Letter to Families as we Launch Remote Writing Workshop
As I considered what to write this week, I decided to share a piece I was crafting for back to school, as an instructional coach/remote kindergarten teacher this year. The process helped me to focus on what families might need, as they experience writing workshop in new ways (i.e. at their kitchen tables).
