Are you worried about sending writer's notebooks home with your students? What if they don't bring them back?
Category: writer’s notebook
Throwback Week: A Peek Inside Dana’s Writer’s Notebook
This week on Two Writing Teachers, we each chose another co-author's previously published post to feature as part of our very own Throwback Week. I am kicking it off, with a great one, originally posted by Dana. Enjoy! Winter break is coming soon, replete with its promise of snowy days spent sledding down hills or… Continue reading Throwback Week: A Peek Inside Dana’s Writer’s Notebook
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Note-Taking: A Writing Genre Worthy of a Curriculum of Its Own
Launch a note-taking curriculum with an assessment and a vision of what is possible.
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Be a Teacher Who Writes Poetry
Need some inspiration? Try writing a poem today using one of these tips for getting started!
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Work Smarter: 5 Tips for Checking Writer’s Notebooks Efficiently
Grace Chough led a session, "Turning Writer's Notebooks Into Workbenches, and Using Them to Work Deliberately Towards Big Goals," at the June 2014 TCRWP Writing Institute. She shared lots of smart thinking about the work students do in writer's notebooks. But there one particular thing she said that resonated with me since I used to… Continue reading Work Smarter: 5 Tips for Checking Writer’s Notebooks Efficiently
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Writing through the visual arts: an “in between” unit of study
We are in that in-between stage right now in writing workshop, having just completed our Personal Narrative unit, and pausing briefly before we begin our unit on memoir. These in-between stages are often perfect for experimenting with something new. My kids have been working hard for the past month, and I wanted a “cool factor”… Continue reading Writing through the visual arts: an “in between” unit of study
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10 Topic Choice Mentor Texts
Do you have students who claim they don't know what to write about in their writer's notebooks? Here are 10 new picture books to inspire them to write.
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You don’t have to write, you get to write.
After your students decorate their writer's notebooks and you review your expectations, the notebooks go home. This is exciting! Who doesn't love writing in a new notebook?!!? I'll tell ya, there are plenty of students who aren't enthralled with the idea of writing at home every night since they don't think they have anything to say… Continue reading You don’t have to write, you get to write.
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A Peek Inside My Writer’s Notebook
Launching writer's notebooks by giving kids a peek into my own
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Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Setting up the Writer’s Notebook for a Year of Writing
Welcome back, readers! We have returned from our July break refreshed and ready for a new school year of sharing ideas, resources, and teaching practices here at Two Writing Teachers. For many of us, the first day of school is right around the corner, and we are turning our attention to preparing our lesson… Continue reading Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Setting up the Writer’s Notebook for a Year of Writing
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Role reversal: Writing Workshop with Linda Rief at the Boothbay Literacy Retreat
As a writing teacher, I know that I must write - and I do: blog posts, book reviews, a Slice of Life every Tuesday, letters to my students in the reading journals and writer’s notebooks, lesson plan writing, curriculum writing, all kinds of writing. So, why was it that I was making my way to… Continue reading Role reversal: Writing Workshop with Linda Rief at the Boothbay Literacy Retreat
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An End of the Year Writing Check
At the end of the school year, we are often faced with pages and pages of student writing. Most of it may have gone home already, but now is a great time to study the work that remains as lovely, informal assessment of our teaching. Following are a few suggestions for lenses we can use to… Continue reading An End of the Year Writing Check
