Writing is a big animal. A subjective animal as well when it comes to teaching our youngest writers.
Category: early childhood
Writing in Preschool. Where Does it All Fit?
"People who are comfortable composing are much more likely to have strong identities as writers than people who don't." Katie Wood Ray & Matt Glover
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A Writing Routine with Primary Writers
What is your writing routine? Find some advice and tools to assist you in developing a routine that works for you and your students.
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What Do You Do With a Child Like This?
Demonstrating that print carries a message is the first and most important step when taking a writer from talking and drawing to writing words.
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Tailoring Our Teaching with Conferring: The Basics with the Youngest Writers
What chair are you sitting in when it comes to conferring? Is it too hard, too soft or just right? Read on to find common questions and tips when sitting beside the youngest writers.
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Teacher Prompt and Support Continuum—Talking to Drawing
Prompting and support can be tricky business. Here are some tips for early writers who have moved from the verbal story and are ready to draw. These suggestions will help you support the right things at the right time in the right way.
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It Starts With a Conversation
A peek inside a preschool writer and picnic style workshop.
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A Tiny Invitation
Tiny hands are limitless story tellers.
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Boys and Girls Playing Together
I recently read Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (2011) by Peggy Orenstein. While hospitals don't hand out manuals to parents who leave with a newborn, this book is the closest thing I've found to a manual on how I want to raise my daughter. (As for… Continue reading Boys and Girls Playing Together
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An Interview with Leslie Patricelli + Giveaways
About a month or two after my daughter was born, I posted several status updates on my Facebook page complaining about the quality of the board books we had. They were too short, with few if any words, and didn’t hold my attention. I know board books serve a legitimate purpose in a baby’s literacy… Continue reading An Interview with Leslie Patricelli + Giveaways
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GUEST BLOG POST: The Journey
Caroline Gonzalez currently works as an Instructional Support teacher for grades 1-3 in South Brunswick NJ. After 21 years of teaching, she is completing coursework to attain an Administrator's License. She is the proud mother of three children who is entering a new stage in my life as she prepare to send her child off… Continue reading GUEST BLOG POST: The Journey
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GUEST BLOG POST: Fostering a Love of Writing
Maureen Ingram has taught in cooperative preschools in the Washington, D.C. suburbs since September 2000, working primarily with three year olds, and mentoring adults – both parents and teachers – in their work with young children. She has a keen interest in open-ended, exploratory learning, conflict resolution and problem-solving with young children, and understanding different… Continue reading GUEST BLOG POST: Fostering a Love of Writing
