Publishing Party - October 2004, originally uploaded by teachergal. Katherine Bomer spoke about the celebrating the work our young writers do when she delivered the Keynote Address at the TCRWP July Writing Institute. She made me reflect on the way I celebrate my students' work, which I do at the end of each unit of… Continue reading Remember to Celebrate!
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Stop & Look Around You: THAT’S WHAT WRITERS DO!
I attended the Teachers College Summer Institute on the Teaching of Writing last week. I'll be blogging about it A LOT in the days (probably weeks, since I have about 100 pages of notes) to come. One thing that strikes me is that nearly every instructor echoed the same message: you need to pay attention… Continue reading Stop & Look Around You: THAT’S WHAT WRITERS DO!
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Ralph Fletcher on Memoir
I had the privilege of hearing Ralph Fletcher speak about writing memoir today. He said a few things that resonated with me about why we write memoir and about how to create memorable memoirs. Here are the most salient points I gathered from Fletcher's talk: Memoir allows us to revisit things that happened to us… Continue reading Ralph Fletcher on Memoir
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“New Literacy”
I'm in a political mood today since today is Primary Day in R.I. Therefore, I have been thinking about the way that politicians work with educators to affect change. Hence, I decided to pull-up something I wrote (last year) as a response to reading chapter 12 of Patrick Finn's Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class… Continue reading “New Literacy”
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Stumbling into a first grade classroom
I stumbled into a colleague's classroom on Tuesday and found a chart posted about line breaks. It included a poem by Zoe Ryder White, whose work I was unfamiliar with. (I'm a bit embarrassed by this since she's from NYC and has done lots of work with the TCRWP. I'm surprised I haven't been to… Continue reading Stumbling into a first grade classroom
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How do Notebooks Fit into the Writing Process
A Time for Meaning - Notebooks in the Writing Process, originally uploaded by teachergal. This graphic is from Katherine Bomer's Key Note Address at the 2006 TCRWP Summer Institute on the Teaching of Writing. It's all about how writer's notebooks fit into the writing process. Since we're big on notebooks here at "Two Writing Teachers"… Continue reading How do Notebooks Fit into the Writing Process
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Assessing Narrative Writing
I went to the TCRWP Website in order to link my last post. While I was there I noticed that the K-8 Continuum for Assessing Narrative Writing has been posted on the public part of the Project's Website. It is NOT for duplication. This document is still a work in progress, at it was last… Continue reading Assessing Narrative Writing
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A Must-Read for All WW Teachers
An article published this past summer in Education Next came across my desk today. "The Lucy Calkins project: parsing a self-proclaimed literacy guru" disturbed me for two reasons: 1. Lucy was my professor for four courses when I was a graduate student at Teachers College. She taught me how to be a better teacher of… Continue reading A Must-Read for All WW Teachers
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Recipe for Conferring Success
I baked a delicious chocolate peanut butter chip quick bread this past weekend. It came from a mix. (See how honest I am!) However, it required a few ingredients, such as eggs, water, and cocoa powder, to be added. I put all of those items into the Kitchen Aid Mixer and poof! Two minutes later… Continue reading Recipe for Conferring Success
