I've read Jacqueline Woodson's Book Sweet, Sweet Memory to three classes now. However, I've never had such an intense discussion with any other group of children about Sweet, Sweet Memory as I did with my class today during Interactive Read Aloud (aka: IRA). One of the boys in my class, who sits right next to… Continue reading “Everything and everyone goes on and on.”
Category: literary essay
One notebook or many?
Last week I blogged about a Recipe for Conferring Success. I've done some more thinking about it in recent days and am left pondering the following questions for myself as a teacher of writing: 1. One notebook or many? a. How many notebooks should teachers of writing keep to use in conferences and strategy lessons… Continue reading One notebook or many?
