Mary Anne left this comment: Mary Anne, on August 17th, 2008 at 8:56 pm Said: Here is what I would love to hear more about. Can you talk a little about your experience with Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study? I am using it for the first time and, although I have lots of experience teaching… Continue reading Units of Study: A Writing Coach’s Perspective
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Units of Study: A Classroom Teacher’s Perspective
Mary Anne left a comment earlier this evening, in which she asked some questions about the units of study: "Can you talk a little about your experience with Lucy Calkins' Units of Study? I am using it for the first time and, although I have lots of experience teaching writing, I would love to hear… Continue reading Units of Study: A Classroom Teacher’s Perspective
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Ruth & Units of Study.
Earlier today Stacey posted an introduction about units of study. I'll use Stacey's post as a "mentor" for this one. First my background: I was first introduced to Writing Workshop through the All-Write Consortium, which is an organization dedicated to providing classroom teachers with professional development about the teaching of writing. When the consortium began, they… Continue reading Ruth & Units of Study.
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Units of Study
I noticed that 30% of the people (i.e., 27/89) who've taken our poll, thus-far, have said they'd like us to post more about units of study. However, since only a few people have commented, I'm not exactly sure what types of things people are wondering about units of study in Writing Workshop. So, I'll do… Continue reading Units of Study
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Poll – Early Results
From the looks of the poll I posted two days ago, it looks like people would like more posts about "units of study" and "using mentor texts" in writing classrooms. Since the poll is open until the 20th of August, we didn't want to start posting about one thing (e.g., mentor texts) like wild and… Continue reading Poll – Early Results
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Get More Tools at http://twowritingteachers.com!
Last August we made our blog live. This August, we're delighted to announce the launch of Two Writing Teachers -- The Website! Essentially, our new website is a place where you can go to find lots of tools (and links to related blog posts) to help you with various units of study you might teach… Continue reading Get More Tools at http://twowritingteachers.com!
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Ad Copywriting: A (New) Unit of Study Possibility
Kids watch commercials on television all of the time. Most of the children I know can recite the jingles they hear on both television and on the radio. However, I've never thought of giving kids the chance to write advertisement copy until I was staring over a friend's shoulder today. My friend was showing me… Continue reading Ad Copywriting: A (New) Unit of Study Possibility
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There Isn’t Time… The Gates Are Closing… Teaching ’til the End…
Next Week: Agh!!!!!!!!!!! Originally uploaded by teachergal Farjeon wrote a poem called "There Isn't Time," which has always resonated with me since I try to multi-task all of the time -- sometimes successfully and sometimes I just don't get everything done. At the end of every school year, because I've got this demented idea that… Continue reading There Isn’t Time… The Gates Are Closing… Teaching ’til the End…
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Poetry on all of my N&A Charts
My students are starting their poetry unit of study tomorrow. Hence, all of my News & Announcements Charts for the upcoming week have something poetry-related on them:
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Gearing Up for Poetry
Poetry Portfolio Originally uploaded by teachergal It's May. National Poetry Month is over. However, that means that I'm just three weeks away from the start of our final unit of study: POETRY! 🙂 I decided to take the eight poems I had done for the One-Week Poetry Challenge and put them into a binder. However,… Continue reading Gearing Up for Poetry
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Slight Tweaking
I did some slight tweaking to our memoir unit of study. This is this year's "final" version. Session 1: Writers read and listen to student memoirs and then write in order to inspire their own writing. Session 2: Writers find their life topic by thinking about people who are important to you. One way writers… Continue reading Slight Tweaking
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Gearing-Up for Memoir
We're starting a new unit of study on Monday: MEMOIR! I've taught it twice using Calkins and Chiarella's Book. However, this year is going to be different. Kate and I decided to mesh C&C's book with Katherine Bomer's Book entitled Writing A Life. Our teaching points are from both books. However, we think we might… Continue reading Gearing-Up for Memoir
