The Reading Zone posed some questions (on her blog) about how other teachers use document cameras in the classroom. Since the document camera I was fortunate to have was bestowed upon my room last year, thanks to a grant from DonorsChoose, my teaching has been transformed. When the document camera first arrived, my students joked… Continue reading Document Camera
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Sharing a Notebook Lesson
Aimee Buckner's Book, Notebook Know-How, is an excellent resource for providing kids with strategies for generating notebook writing. Since many folks who took our poll asserted that they wanted more info on units of study, I figured I'd post a minilesson of mine that is based off of Buckner's Best and Worst Life Events Strategy.… Continue reading Sharing a Notebook Lesson
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Combo: 2 questionnaires meshed into one
Literacy Interview Originally uploaded by teachergal My colleague recently gave me a copy of a Reading Profile she uses with her students. Loved it! However, it left me realizing that the Writing Interview I've given my students in the past would be overkill since that would be two interviews they'd have to fill-out for me.… Continue reading Combo: 2 questionnaires meshed into one
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Writing Center
My Students' New Writing Center Originally uploaded by teachergal Last year my students' writing center was a pretty tall bookcase. The wooden structure, pictured, housed the math center. However, as the amount of math manipulatives I have continues to grow, I had to swap spaces. Hence, the old math center is my students' new writing… Continue reading Writing Center
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It’s time for…
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M.M. Inspriation: An Optional & Challenging Charge
Pick an entry, any entry! Originally uploaded by teachergal Find an old diary or writer's notebook. Open it to any page. Let that be the inspiration for this-coming M.M. Even if it's not what you thought you'd ever write more about, try to run with it. GOOD LUCK!
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Five Shakes of the Rain Stick
Emily Butler-Smith, a staff developer with the TCRWP led an interesting session on classroom management structures at the July Writing Institute. At first, I'm pretty happy with the routines and procedures I've established (and honed) over the past few years. However, I truly believe you can always get ideas from others, so I went. And… Continue reading Five Shakes of the Rain Stick
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The Big Picture: What’s on your heart?
I used my teaching heart map as an example in the classroom yesterday, which made me go back and look at the past post about it. I was amazed at how thinking about my teaching heart map soothed my soul and realigned my thinking to the big picture. As the Big Picture Series comes to… Continue reading The Big Picture: What’s on your heart?
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Heart Maps: Another Twist.
Sara left the following comment, which I love, first, because it's a comment and, second, because I was planning to blog about this today. What is that they say about minds that think alike? Sarah Brooke commented on A Twist on Heart Maps: I know you posted this months ago, but I’ve recently heard even… Continue reading Heart Maps: Another Twist.
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STRONG EMOTIONS MINILESSON
I was asked, by Ro, about my Strong Emotions/Skittles Lesson. I normally don't post minilessons I write in this forum for several reasons (one of which is that it doesn't align with the mission statement Ruth and I composed for this blog). However, this one is a bit out-of-the-box. Hence, I am posting the minilesson… Continue reading STRONG EMOTIONS MINILESSON
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Memory Boxes
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge was published in 1985, when I was in third grade. However, my third grade teacher never read it to me, nor did my fourth or my fifth. In fact, I hadn't even heard of this Mem Fox Book until last week when my mother-in-law, a former first and third grade teacher… Continue reading Memory Boxes
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Our 1,000th Post
As I was moderating comments this morning, I realized that we've written 999 posts. OH MY GOSH! Since I'm big on milestones, I figured I'd write a special 1,000th Post this morning celebrating 1% of the posts we've written since we launched Two Writing Teachers a year ago. But first, since I'm also a numbers… Continue reading Our 1,000th Post
