Welcome to Memoir Monday.  Those who are regulars, we are looking forward to reading your memories as you record them and share them today.  If you are new to Two Writing Teachers, or a Memoir Monday rookie, we would love to have you join us.  Here are two simple ways to dip your toes into… Continue reading Memoir Monday

I live with a three year old.  Sometimes he becomes obsessive about a book.  He'll get on a streak and only want the same story read over and over and over -- many times a day for many days in a row.  The current obsession is David Shannon's A Bad Case of Stripes.   At first… Continue reading Mentor Texts: The Importance of Rereading

My apologies for the late post today.  Teachers returned yesterday at my school district.  We had huge thunderstorms and lost power.  Can you imagine no copy machines on the day before opening day?  The Internet was still down today.  Not to mention that on the home front my second grader and kindergartener started school today… Continue reading Are you out there Slicers?

This week I thought it would be fun to focus on some mentors of editorials.  This genre, which is typical for middle and high school writers, is among my favorite to teach.  The primary reason it is my favorite?  Because of these outstanding editorialists! (Note:  I try to pull articles that represent both sides of… Continue reading Mentor Text Thursday: Editorials.

Swan Boats: Boston -- June 2009 Originally uploaded by teachergal A few days ago, one of our readers pointed out that we were getting close to having a half-million hits here on TWT. Today 500,000 hits became a reality. On behalf of both of us, thank you for being part of our blog about the… Continue reading 500,000

Need some inspiration?  Check out this post and the comments from the weekend!  Thanks everyone for participating in Living Like a Writer.  If you participated and haven't left a comment, it's not too late -- the comments are still open!  🙂  Tracy even made a video!  Make sure to check it out!

I've been thinking a lot about the everyday stories of life.  There is so much power in the ordinary, routine, and daily living that we do.  Yet so often, this living just passes through us like the air we breathe.  Suddenly the week is over.  Suddenly it's the weekend.  Suddenly summer is over.  Suddenly the… Continue reading Finding Meaning.

My slice of life involves painters arriving at 8:00 am + four rooms and a hallway.  I was up until after 1:30 am removing wallpaper glue and back at it at 5:30 am this morning.  Suddenly I remembered I'm responsible for hosting Slice of Life Story Challenge.  So here it is . . .  

Stacey and I decided to use Fridays throughout the summer to share inspiration for living like writers.  Since storytelling is on my mind (and many of yours -- thanks for the comments!), I thought I'd offer this challenge: Tell a story this weekend.  While you're at it, why not tell it a couple of different… Continue reading Living Like Writers: Storytelling.