Category: low-stakes

Writing on the Walls
academic choice · accessibility · audience · authentic writing · bulletin boards · classroom environment · EAL · low-stakes · writing workshop

Writing on the Walls

Marina Rodriguez1 Comment

What we place on the walls of a classroom tells students, or any other person who enters the room, what is valued most, and what we should value most in our classrooms is student work.

(Writing) Life Imitates Art: Finding Inspiration in Ralph Fletcher’s Instagram
community · digital tools · digital writing · low-stakes · notebooks · photograph · ralph fletcher · writer identity · writer's notebook

(Writing) Life Imitates Art: Finding Inspiration in Ralph Fletcher’s Instagram

Amy Ellerman13 Comments

The creative lives we maintain outside of writing fill us up as humans with stories to tell. When we bring this life into the writing workshop, it builds community, and it lays the foundation for lifelong writers who have strategies for sustaining their own writing lives.

Spark! Quick Writes to Kindle Hearts and Minds in Elementary Classrooms- Review & Giveaway
low-stakes · quick write · writing workshop

Spark! Quick Writes to Kindle Hearts and Minds in Elementary Classrooms- Review & Giveaway

Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski97 Comments

Be sure to leave a comment today for a chance to win Paula Bourque's must-read book, Spark! Quick Writes to Kindle Hearts and Minds in Elementary Classrooms. You are going to want this book!