commenting · Slice of Life Story Challenge

SOL Tuesday

Before you share the link to your slice of life story today, I hope you'll take a moment to consider doing something to give back to first-time Slicers this March.

personal narrative · primary grades

All About the Paper.

Sometimes making a small change can produce big results.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Join Our Writing Community!

Calling all educators! Whether you're thinking about joining our writing community or coming back for your eighth March writing challenge, please take a few minutes to read this post. (NOTE: There's a change to the way we're doing prizes this year.)

commenting · Slice of Life Story Challenge

SOL Tuesday + a Note About Comments

We would like TWT to stay true to its mission as a place where educators who are passionate about writing can gather inspiration and share ideas. We value your participation and encourage you to comment on all our posts, and especially to comment on each other’s Slice of Life Stories. Please refer to these guidelines when commenting.

Aim Higher Blog Series · goals · self-assessment

Aim Higher: Know Students as Writers

Four ways to help you discover what makes your students tick as writers.

mentor texts · picture book · science · topics · writer's notebook

10 Math & Science Topic Choice Mentors + 10 Book Giveaways

Do you have students who are interested in math and science, but claim they hate writing or don't know what to write about in their writer’s notebooks? Here are 10 newer picture books to inspire them to write about their passion.

digital writing · mentor texts · picture book · technology

Curating Mentor Text Collections

Get started organizing your mentor texts with four digital tools.

growth mindset · olw

Stacey’s One Little Word for 2015

Sometimes I'm tempted to say, "I can't..." or "I haven't..." This year, I'm going to add one little word to those statements to keep myself on-track with a very important long-term goal I have.

Aim Higher Blog Series · blogging · olw · vacation

Winter Recess

The six of us will be celebrating holidays, recharging our batteries, and coming up with more posts to share with this incredible community of teachers and writers for the next two weeks. In the meantime, we have lots to keep you going over winter break.

conventions · grammar

Grammar Matters + a Book Giveaway

Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty's new book, Grammar Matters, is for teachers of Kindergarten through 6th grade. It provides lessons as well as grammar references so you can enhance your instruction and get your students excited about learning grammar.

balanced literacy · classroom · independent writing · lesson plans · lucy calkins · minilesson · organization · professional development · tcrwp · Throwback Week · units of study · writing workshop

Throwback Week: How To Read A Unit of Study

Learn some tricks for reading the Units of Study, whether you're new to the units or have been using them for many years.

NCTE · presentations · professional development · Slice of Life Story Challenge

Highlights from NCTE

We're sharing our presentations from NCTE with you, along with quotes I jotted down from a variety of authors and literacy leaders. ALSO, take a peek at some photos from our Slicer Dinner.