slice of life · writing workshop

It’s Tuesday! Time to share a slice of life!

Welcome to our weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge! Write. Share. Give. Please leave the permalink to your own blog post, and comment on at least three other posts. Comments energize writers and keep our writing community vibrant. On a related note, if you are a slicer who is attending NCTE in St. Louis and you’re… Continue reading It’s Tuesday! Time to share a slice of life!

assessment · conferring · feedback · formative assessment · writing workshop

A Closer Look: Learning About Our Writers with Formative Assessment

Sound assessment plays a vital role in showing and in detailing progress students are making toward reasonable goals.

academic choice · authentic writing · blogging · digital writing · writing workshop

Past the Flash of Technology

Technology gives us all choices and decisions to make. Big decisions. How can we welcome technology in our classrooms? Technology can be a new way of doing the same thing. Will we seek apps that allow our students to make choices in creating and sharing with others, or will we seek apps that do the same old thing in a different way?

slice of life · writing workshop

It’s Tuesday! Join us with a slice of life!

Welcome to our weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge! Please leave the permalink to your own blog post, and comment on at least three other posts. Comments energize writers and keep our writing community vibrant. Our community is a source of strength for each other. My thoughts continue to be with people who are impacted by… Continue reading It’s Tuesday! Join us with a slice of life!

revision · writing workshop

Three Tips to Avoid Overcommitting to First Words: Revision

Helping light the way to revision for our writers while honoring those first words.

classroom environment · writing workshop

A Change Will Do You Good

Changing things up can mean extra work and moving away from what you've always done. It can also breathe new life into spaces and might move you closer to what you are trying to achieve.

slice of life · writing workshop

It’s Tuesday! Time to share a slice of life!

  Welcome to our weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge! At Two Writing Teachers, we believe in the importance of a writing community. Please leave the permalink to your own blog post, and comment on at least three other posts. We all know how much comments mean to ourselves as writers--please share your writing and be generous… Continue reading It’s Tuesday! Time to share a slice of life!

writing workshop

The Silent Hero: Routines and Procedures

Procedures allow us to complete our daily tasks without worry of what's next.  Our minds are free to think about the important parts of our day, the learning.

engagement · Jennifer Serravallo · writing workshop · Writing Workshop Fundamentals blog series · writing workshop routines

Teaching Students to Self-Monitor

Three strategies to use so that students develop their own ability to monitor themselves as writers.

feedback · writing workshop

TWT Voxer Book Club 2.0

At the start of the summer, I read and reviewed Patty McGee's Feedback That Moves Writers Forward. It's a book, I believe, that can change my teaching of writing for the better...and maybe yours too. It's a book I want to dive into more deeply, rereading it and sharing my ideas with other educators in a book club. I know that the beginning of the school year is a challenging time to ask teachers to take on anything additional. But here I am anyway, inviting you to take part in a Voxer book club to discuss Feedback That Moves Writers Forward. So why should you?

Slice of Life Story Challenge · writing workshop

SOL Tuesday

Welcome to our weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge!

audience · engagement · meeting area · reflections · sharing · writing workshop

If We Build It, They Will Come: Tales From Inside The Sharing Circle

The most important minutes of your writing workshop require zero hassle and no prep--only precious time. The minimal investment is worth its weight in gold. Welcome to the sharing circle with guest teacher Lori VanHoesen: The bridge builder you didn't know was doing the hardest work all along.