2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 28 OF 31
Welcome to Day 28 of the Classroom SOLSC! Care to leave a video on Flipgrid about your experience?
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2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 27 OF 31
Welcome to Day 27 of the Classroom SOLSC! Today we are looking for your feedback on the format we used this year.
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 26 OF 31
Welcome to Day 26! Today’s questions is about thinking of the lessons learned and what you might do differently next year….
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 25 OF 31
Welcome to Day 25 of the 2018 Classroom SOLSC for Students! We are thinking about texts that inspire your students to write today.
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 24 OF 31
Welcome to Day 24 of the 2018 Classroom SOLSC for Students! Are your students easily coming up with ideas or need a little help for our final stretch?
TWT’s Mission Statement
Every so often, it is good to stop and think about why we do what we do. At Two Writing Teachers, the co-authors and I recently revisited our Mission Statement and updated it to reflect our most current beliefs about this blog and the teaching of writing
Student-Written Mentor Texts: Beyond the Fundamentals of Writing Workshop
While many teachers seem knowledgeable about mentor texts and teacher-created texts, it is my hope that focusing on student-written mentor texts will lead more teachers to realize students can be mentor authors, too.
Slice of Life Tuesday #SOL18
It’s Tuesday! Write. Share. Give! If you have a BLOGGER blog, please read the announcement today regarding an important technical issue with commenting.
Kathleen’s OLW for 2018
In 2018, I want to grow. I want to learn. I want to DO more and DO better. My One Little Word (OLW) for 2018 is DO.
Slice of Life Tuesday #SOL18
Happy New Year! Today we roll out our new hashtag for this year: #SOL18. We are so glad you are here today to share your post, then read and comment on other posts too!
More Wishes
More wishes for you, dear educator, as we get ready to end one year and begin another.
Adventures in First Grade Writing
When you love writing, and love teaching writing, and when you blog often about the teaching of writing, it’s a wee bit awkward when your own first grade son refuses to write in school.
Reimagining Homework: Homework and the Writing Workshop
This past summer, I found myself questioning homework- why I give it, what it accomplishes and if there might be an alternative.
Engaging Writers: Solving Predictable Problems
If we want engaged writers, and not simply compliant students going through the motions and counting the minutes until writing time is over, we need to find ways to capture their attention and their hearts.
OLW Check In
What was your OLW and how did it treat you so far this year?
Powerful Punctuation!
Punctuation is a pesky problem. Third grade students often forget their punctuation, writing an entire story without a single period in sight. As I launched writing workshop this year, I’ve been looking for ways to show my students that punctuation can add voice and meaning to their piece of writing.
An Invitation to Make Writing That Matters
Teaching writing isn’t easy. We can get lost in all that needs “fixing” in our students’ work, lost in the standards and district curriculum maps, lost in the products we need to hang on a wall for a display. We find our way when our WHY is nearest to our hearts: Why do our students need to write well? How will writing play a role in their lives? How will writing make their lives more meaningful? What matters the most when it comes to teaching young writers?
Knowing My Writers
September is a get-to-know-you month. A community-building-ice-breaker-month. September is a settling-in month, a becoming-comfortable month, a building-relationship month. It’s an ask-the-parents-about-their-child month. A stack of papers month. Artwork created month. September is a launching month, a set-the-vision month, a build-enthusiasm for the work ahead month.
September is an exhausting month, but a month that reveals much about the 24 third graders who inhabit room 215 with me this year.
A Change Will Do You Good
Changing things up can mean extra work and moving away from what you’ve always done. It can also breathe new life into spaces and might move you closer to what you are trying to achieve.
TWT Voxer Book Club 2.0
At the start of the summer, I read and reviewed Patty McGee’s Feedback That Moves Writers Forward. It’s a book, I believe, that can change my teaching of writing for the better…and maybe yours too. It’s a book I want to dive into more deeply, rereading it and sharing my ideas with other educators in a book club. I know that the beginning of the school year is a challenging time to ask teachers to take on anything additional. But here I am anyway, inviting you to take part in a Voxer book club to discuss Feedback That Moves Writers Forward. So why should you?