Potentially, one of the most impactful opportunities we have for making a lasting difference on our students as writers is when we pull up next to them and confer with them. It's SO worth spending some time reflecting, setting goals, and developing tools and strategies for the conferring work we do as teachers.
Category: writing workshop
Spontaneous Sparks
My students got extra creative when we used some extra time in a spontaneous way!
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Making the Writer Better: Getting Started with Blogging
As I move forward in planning summer professional development for the teachers in my district, I am already finding the infographic invaluable. In planning my session, “Getting Started with Blogging” I found the information on the infographic guiding each slide and each step as I planned the presentation.
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Slice of Life Tuesday
Tuesdays are Slice of Life days. Welcome to our community or writers, readers, and commenters.
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Slice of Life Tuesday
Tuesdays are Slice of Life days! Everyone is welcome in this community. Welcome to the Slice of Life Community! WRITE a slice of life story on your own blog. SHARE a link to your post in the comments section. GIVE comments to at least three other SOL bloggers.
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Before You Go…
It's that time of year when we start to think about all the things we didn't get to do with our students! Here are five writing exercises I am going to make sure students don't leave without!
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What’s Working? Take the Time to Celebrate It
Sometimes our writing workshops can begin to feel a little like a house we live in-- always something to improve, always something we haven't been able to get to, etc. But I would venture to argue that, like a house, many things are working. It's time to notice and celebrate them!
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Make Writing Better. Start With The Writer.
Think about the writer and making the writer better. What are the needs of a writer? What opportunities does technology offer to make the writer better?
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Slice of Life Tuesday
Tuesdays are Slice of Life days! Everyone is welcome in this community. "If we are asking students to take risks, we have to model risk-taking." Meredith Sinclair at the first Connecticut Council for Teachers of English Convention, May 12, 2018 This community celebrates the risk we take to write and share our… Continue reading Slice of Life Tuesday
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Organization Wishes and Happy Writing Dreams
Are you the writing teacher you dream to be?
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Slice of Life Tuesday
Tuesdays are Slice of Life days! Everyone is welcome in this community. Sometimes we find inspiration in the strangest places. Last week, I opened a Dove chocolate--the kind that has a message inside the aluminum wrapper--and here's the message I found: Every moment matters, including this one. Autumn B., Florida. Welcome to the Slice of… Continue reading Slice of Life Tuesday
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In Case You Missed It: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Thank you for joining us for our blog series Looking Back and Moving Forward. I think we all agree on the importance of reflection in the lives of writers. In case you missed any of our posts over the past week, here's a quick summary.
