This week I’m sharing the Happy Like Soccer craft table my graduate students created. My students worked in partnerships to flesh out explanations for craft moves they identified in Maribeth Boelts’s book on the second day of class. I asked them to create a craft table with a partner for two reasons. First, I… Continue reading Craft Tables for You — Part III of III
This is the second in a series of three posts that include craft tables you can download for use during your conferences or strategy lessons. If you missed last week’s post, which talked about what craft tables are and how to create them, then click here to read it now. This week I’m sharing two… Continue reading Craft Tables for You — Part II of III
Craft tables are a way to organize one’s thinking about a books teachers will be use as a mentor text. Since a good deal of the mentor text work we do with students in writing workshop happens during one-to-one writing conferences and during small group strategy lessons, it helps to know books really well. Hence,… Continue reading Craft Tables for You — Part I of III
I’ve been working on a new craft table about Ahlberg’s Book The Pencil for the past couple of days. I hope to use this craft table in writing conferences with my students when we get to our fiction picture book unit in March. So far, this is what I’ve come up with: The final version,… Continue reading Draft of a New Craft Table About Ahlberg’s The Pencil: A Work-in-Progress
I’ve been pouring over Allan Ahlberg’s The Pencil, which came out last year, but came on to my radar a few weeks ago. I’ve been trying to figure out how to use it as a mentor text with my students, which is why I haven’t written about it yet. However, after a lot of deliberation,… Continue reading Coming Soon… A New Craft Table
I dissected Angela Johnson’s Book, A Sweet Smell of Roses, to the best of my ability today. I created wordy teaching points so you can truly help your students to see what craft moves Johnson made (at least, the ones I think she made). This will help you show the writers in your classroom how… Continue reading The Craft Table for A SWEET SMELL OF ROSES is complete!
Do you differentiate your students’ spelling lists by giving them personal spelling words? If so, you can take those lists a step further by providing them with portable word walls for their writing folder and/or for at-home use.
Not every kid is born with a positive attitude towards writing. Here are six low-stress ways to develop a writer at home (some of which don’t even include putting a pen to paper)!
Wouldn’t it be great to escape for a few days to just write? Oh, do I have a place for you! You won’t have to cook a single meal, it’s tranquil, there’s wifi, AND it’s affordable.
I’m proud to announce my second professional book with Stenhouse Publishers will be coming to you in the winter of 2016.
In an effort to make sure summer doesn’t pass us by, we’ve decided to take a month off from blogging here at Two Writing Teachers again this summer. Today is the last non-Slice of Life Story Challenge post you’ll see until Monday, August 5th. (NOTE: We’ll still be hosting the Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge during the entire month of July.)
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve loved books about bears. Therefore, when I picked up Goldilocks and Just One Bear, which feels like the sequel to “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” I was giddy. Leigh Hodgkinson‘s new book helped me to envision what became of some of my favorite fairy tale characters after… Continue reading Chatting with Leigh Hodgkinson + a Giveaway
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