This week on Two Writing Teachers, we each chose another co-author's previously published post to feature as part of our very own Throwback Week. I am kicking it off, with a great one, originally posted by Dana. Enjoy! Winter break is coming soon, replete with its promise of snowy days spent sledding down hills or… Continue reading Throwback Week: A Peek Inside Dana’s Writer’s Notebook
Author: Anna Gratz Cockerille
Anna is a staff developer, literacy coach, and writer, based in New York City. She taught internationally in places such as Sydney, Australia; San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Auckland, New Zealand in addition to New York before becoming a staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University (TCRWP). She has been an adjunct instructor in the Literacy Specialist Program at Teachers College, and teaches at TCRWP where she helps participants bring strong literacy instruction into their classrooms. Anna recently co-wrote Bringing History to Life with Lucy Calkins, part of the 2013 series Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing (Heinemann). She has been a researcher for Lucy Calkins, contributing especially to Pathways to the Common Core (Heinemann, 2012) and Navigating Nonfiction (Heinemann, 2010).
Note-Taking: A Writing Genre Worthy of a Curriculum of Its Own
Launch a note-taking curriculum with an assessment and a vision of what is possible.
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#TWTBlog Session at #NCTE14: Live Tweets from the Event!
Live tweets from #NCTE14! Join us at 9:30EST at #TWTBlog.
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Five Quick Tips to Declutter your Writing Workshop
Feeling your writing workshop isn't running as smoothly as it could? Now is the time to declutter.
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Work Smarter: Using Qualities of Writing to Streamline Assessment and Plan Instruction
Dana's Tuesday post about commenting on student writing resonated strongly with me. I used to be that teacher who would collect students' work, take it home, and mark it up with each and every possible way it could be improved. (Though I used green pen to avoid the negative connotations of red, I am certain that… Continue reading Work Smarter: Using Qualities of Writing to Streamline Assessment and Plan Instruction
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Using Assessment Tools to Teach Transference
Valuable lessons can be learned when an assessment tool designed for one genre is used to assess another.
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Happy National Day on Writing 2014
Happy National Day on Writing!
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Free Professional Development! Tweet All About It.
I admit, when I first heard about Twitter, I thought the concept was ridiculous. Shooting a message of 140 characters or less into the world? Why? Who would care? Since my initial incredulity, Twitter was to become one of the predominant social media platforms, one with a markedly professional bent. Many authors, businesses, marketing consultants, tech… Continue reading Free Professional Development! Tweet All About It.
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Writing about Reading: Considering Perspective Paves the Way for Critical Thinking
Rubin's vase is a famous optical illusion that can be interpreted in multiple ways. When looked at one way, it appears to be a vase. When looked at another way, it appears to be two faces peering at each other. This image was developed by a Danish Psychologist, Edgar Rubin. About this image, Rubin remarked: "When… Continue reading Writing about Reading: Considering Perspective Paves the Way for Critical Thinking
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Write, Share, Give: It’s SOL time
WRITE a slice of life story on your own blog. SHARE a link to your post in the comments section. GIVE comments to at least three other Slicers who link below. SHARE YOUR SLICE WITH THE WORLD TODAY! TWT T-SHIRT FUNDRAISER Thanks to this wonderful community, we raised $277.82 through sales of our Slice of… Continue reading Write, Share, Give: It’s SOL time
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Creative Writing is Not Hot
Each year for the past nineteen years, the International Reading Association has published a list of What's Hot and What's Not in literacy education in their magazine, Reading Today. The list is based on surveys of twenty five of the world's top literacy gurus, such as Richard Allington, P. David Pearson, and Timothy Rasinski. Survey respondents were… Continue reading Creative Writing is Not Hot
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Sharing the Work: Assigning Teacher Leaders for Unit Planning
There is an adage: if the teacher is working too hard, the students aren't working hard enough. There are many cases where this is true: in a writing conference when the teacher is doing all of the talking, during the revision process when a student is following a teacher's notated directions, in a lesson where the… Continue reading Sharing the Work: Assigning Teacher Leaders for Unit Planning
