Yesterday in Teresa Zurcher's third grade classroom students were personalizing their writer's notebooks. I love how much I learned about kids simply by chatting with them about the stuff they were putting on their notebooks. As an end-of-workshop share, Teresa had everyone put their writer's notebooks on their desks and then they walked around to… Continue reading writer’s notebook share.
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clay fragments.
When I was learning the ropes of teaching, Tammy Hess helped me along. We stumbled into a study group for teachers of writing through the All-Write Consortium. We weren't sure what it was all about, but they offered great food, soothed us with read alouds, and encouraged us to reflect on our lives and our teaching. … Continue reading clay fragments.
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notebooks: make ’em work for you!
What a great discussion Stacey got started about writer's notebooks. To see it, read her post One Notebook or Many? (as well as others since, click here). I've been thinking a lot about notebooks this week too. It is one of the basics of writing workshop and essential for us, as teachers of writing, to… Continue reading notebooks: make ’em work for you!
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time for recopying
I'm running on empty (and I'm not talking about my gas tank). I've barely done any of the recopying in my new writer's notebook that I set out to do. Therefore, I think the blue screen that popped up on my computer the other day was a blessing in disguise since it'll afford me with… Continue reading time for recopying
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Decorating Writer’s Notebooks
Kate (the other fourth grade teacher at my school) & I are planning on spending Friday, 9/7 decorating writer's notebooks with our students. I'm thinking that it should be almost like a scrapbooking party. I'm in search of affordable places to buy lots of stickers for the kids to personalize their notebooks. I am not… Continue reading Decorating Writer’s Notebooks
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Poetry Thursday
Ruth and I both know and love Poetry Friday. However, I was just perusing the internet and found a site called Poetry Thursday, which is "an online project that builds community by encouraging bloggers to read and enjoy poetry, as well as sharing it with others." Since I love teaching poetry (and reading it), I… Continue reading Poetry Thursday
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Operation Notebook
So here I am, on a mission, to find the perfect notebook to use as my MASTER NOTEBOOK (sounds kind of funny calling it that) for my conferences. I think I found it at Borders this morning. It's from Paperchase and looks like this: Here's what I like about it: It's contains lined and blank… Continue reading Operation Notebook
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My Writing Teacher Goals
Angela Redden got me thinking about all of my goals for the upcoming school year. I thought this would be a brilliant place for me to articulate my writerly goals, so here goes. 1. To streamline my conference record-keeping for Writing Workshop. (My Reading Conference notes have always been great, but for some reason I… Continue reading My Writing Teacher Goals
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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?
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The first month of school
I met with the other teacher on my grade level today to plan our Reading and Writing Workshops for the first month of school. Our writing teaching points were inspired by five professional book authors: Aimee Buckner, Lucy Calkins, Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi, and Jim Vopat. Would you have a look over what we created… Continue reading The first month of school
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Getting Started: Creating CWPs
Heinemann just published a lovely series of three booklets by Jim Vopat entitled Micro Lessons in Writing. I am so excited about infusing these micro lessons into my classroom, starting with some of the ideas presented in the first of the three booklets, Big Ideas for Getting Started. In fact, I loved one of the… Continue reading Getting Started: Creating CWPs
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Strategy: Use photos to tell a story
I often have my students bring in photographs of them at special times in their lives in order to help them spark their memory (and write a small moment story.) I discourage them from bringing in posed family portraits since, unless you got into a fist-fight with your little sister before the snapshot at Sears,… Continue reading Strategy: Use photos to tell a story
