Day 27 is getting awfully close to day 31. . . Keep writing, Slicers!
Author: Amy Ellerman
Reader, writer, and instructional coach. Always thinking. Collaborating to innovate the learning experience for students and educators.
Day 26 of the March SOLSC! #SOL21
It's day 26 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. Let's get writing!
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Contributing Your Voice to the Community
Do you remember when you first became a reader of Two Writing Teachers Blog? I do. I was a second grade teacher, and I was launching writer’s notebooks with my students for the first time. I stumbled across a TWT post through (smart) luck via Google, and discovered a gold mine.
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Five Tips for Parents and Caregivers for Offering Feedback to Writers
How can I be clear about aligning what families hear me teaching with what their children are doing with the feedback both they and I offer kids along the way?
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Joy and Agency: An Origin Story
What are the ways I can let writers know that I SEE them, that I understand and appreciate all that they are bringing to the page and the process? How might my feedback serve as a mirror, reflecting back to writers a clear image of who they are, of what is important to them, of evidence of their growth?
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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge
It's Tuesday, it's busy, and you might be talking yourself out of making space to write. . . Push back against the idea that there isn't time for you to create. Carving out time for yourself as a writer is important. We hope you will take a few minutes to craft a slice of life to share with the #TWTBlog community.
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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge
It's Tuesday! Invest time in yourself, teacher-as-writer, and share a slice of life with the #TWTBlog community.
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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge
Write. Share. Give. We invite you to join the #TWTBlog community in the Slice of Life Story Challenge today! (It's always worth the time!)
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Call for Welcome Wagon Volunteers!
#TWTBlog is looking for volunteers to be part of our Welcome Wagon for the March Slice of Life Story Challenge. If you've sliced in prior years, we hope you'll consider joining this important team!
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Horse-Sitting and How-to Writing
A silver lining of teaching remotely has been opportunities, like this one, to elevate authentic reasons to read and write. Kids are curious about how others do things, and they have so much real-world expertise to share. A strategy such as this one gives our youngest writers access to topics that might otherwise exceed their emergent writing skills.
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#SOL21: Welcome to a New Year of the Slice of Life Story Challenge
Ahhhh, it's the first Slice of Life Tuesday of the new year. What an opportunity to kick off 2021 writing and celebrating the community here at Two Writing Teachers Blog. We also have a roundup of OLW posts from #TWTBlog Co-Authors.
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Spinach in a Writer’s Teeth: To Point it out, or not to Point it Out?
When this scenario happened to me (years ago), it did give me pause. As a teacher of writers, I am not the conventions police—I have always been the kind of writer who values content over conventions in the workshop. This is not to say I do not teach conventions or have high expectations for their use. However, it would be fair to say that this particular situation challenged me to think about grammar, punctuation, and spelling differently—shifting the way I approached conventions in the classroom going forward.
