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In her brilliant new book, The Journey Is Everything :Teaching Essays That Students Want to Write for People Who Want to Read Them, Katherine Bomer makes a powerful and passionate case for the joyful embrace of a new vision for teaching our students how to write (and read) the essay.
In their wonderful new book, Writing With Mentors: How To Reach Every Writer In The Room Using Current, Engaging Mentor Texts, authors Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell offer every writing teacher a beautifully thought out methodology for carefully curating mentor texts…
The first thing I did when I learned that we had access to Google hangout in our classroom, was to schedule an author visit…
Welcome to Day 23 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 23 OF 31
Welcome to Day 22 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 22 OF 31
Welcome to Day 21 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 21 OF 31
Welcome to Day 20 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 20 OF 31
Welcome to Day 19 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 19 OF 31
Welcome to Day 18 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 18 OF 31
Welcome to Day 17 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 17 OF 31
Welcome to Day 16 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 16 OF 31
Welcome to Day 15 of the 4th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! If your students are writing for the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, this is where … Continue Reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 15 OF 31
Here at Two Writing Teachers, we believe with all our hearts in issues of professional development, and this is why we’re going to devote the rest of March to issues around professional development, both as coaches and classroom teachers…
A joyous celebration of what writing workshop could be with Amy Ludwig VanDerwater.
My sixth graders have been busy drafting their feature articles this week, and I had a series of mini lessons planned to begin each writing workshop day. My students, however, had other ideas.
We spend so much of our writing workshop time focused on craft moves, and how to make our writing engaging and beautiful; but I want my kids to know that the writer’s life is also about paying attention to the world…
