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.
Author: Tara Smith
I teach Writing Workshop, Language Arts and Social Studies to sixth graders at a middle school in suburban New Jersey. This blog is my attempt to capture all the "stuff" that goes into my teaching life - the planning, the dreaming, the reading, the preparing, the hoping and (above all) the kids.
Please note that the content of this blog is my own. It does not reflect the opinions of my employer.
Writing With Mentors + A Book Giveaway
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...
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What we learned about writing from an author visit
The first thing I did when I learned that we had access to Google hangout in our classroom, was to schedule an author visit...
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 23 OF 31
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 you will post the link to their writing! Reminders: If you haven’t read the Essential Information post, then please click here to read it now before you post the link to… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 23 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 22 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 you will post the link to their writing! Reminders: If you haven’t read the Essential Information post, then please click here to read it now before you post the link to… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 22 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 21 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 you will post the link to their writing! Reminders: If you haven’t read the Essential Information post, then please click here to read it now before you post the link to… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 21 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 20 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 you will post the link to their writing! Reminders: If you haven’t read the Essential Information post, then please click here to read it now before you post the link to… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 20 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 19 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 you will post the link to their writing! Looking for Slice of Life writing ideas? Here’s a slice about welcoming news of a new family… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 19 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 18 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 you will post the link to their writing! Looking for Slice of Life writing ideas? Here's a slice about being excited about getting something...and then… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 18 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 17 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 you will post the link to their writing! Looking for Slice of Life writing ideas? Here's a slice about a soccer game; it was written by… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 17 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 16 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 you will post the link to their writing! Looking for Slice of Life writing ideas? Here's a slice about a scary situation; it was written by Maddie for… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 16 OF 31
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 15 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 you will post the link to their writing! Looking for Slice of Life writing ideas? Here's a slice about something all kids care about: snack… Continue reading CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 15 OF 31
TWO WRITING TEACHERS 