The air has taken on its signature October chill, the cicadas have quieted their thrum, and everywhere outside I hear the paper-like scrape of leaves on the street.
Fall is in full swing, and so is writing workshop. I’m so grateful for the ideas and resources shared here on the Two Writing Teachers site. Every week, I emerge with new ideas to try and new strategies to share with colleagues. Today’s recap post highlights some of the great work from the last two weeks.
On the Blog
Many writers struggle with task avoidance. My article details how that task avoidance is often connected to perfectionism, and offers ways to reframe and move beyond those behaviors:
I don’t know about you, but I’m always trying to find ways to weave grammar instruction into daily writing activities. Melanie Meehan’s article seems like it was written just for my students:
Shawnda Fukano offers a clear and concise way to support multilingual students, and she includes practical supports that I’m eager to use and share with colleagues:
And if that weren’t enough, Betsy Hubbard brings us quick, practical tips for reviewing and teaching sentence and paragraph structure. Her resources are linked and ready to use and adapt for a wide variety of writers:
On the Podcast
If you haven’t yet listened to Stacey and Melanie’s latest Digging Deeper Dialogue, Mastering the Art of a Successful Writing Workshop, what are you waiting for? The episode highlights strategies for managing mini-lessons, thoughtful approaches to sharing student work, and ways to make mid-workshop interruptions more effective. I can’t wait to put their ideas into practice.
And Melanie’s Tip for Tomorrow, Getting a Writing Toolkit Started, is chock-full of easy-to-use ideas for student writing conferences. Melanie brilliantly characterizes conferences as “construction zones,” and the materials she recommends for her writing toolkit help do the building.
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