What was your OLW and how did it treat you so far this year?
Category: writing workshop
Sticky Notes, Arrows, and Margins, Oh My!
Sharing strategies to prepare for revision later can set up students for success.
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What Are They Looking At? Tackling Slow Starters
Helping students take back their writing time when they are a slow starter.
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It’s Not All About Blog: The Work Before The Blog
Take the first step together; write, read, and comment on blogs as a class. These first steps will help your students learn the feel and expectations of a blogging community.
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Providing Ladders of Expectations
All writers learn from studying each other's writing.
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Make Your Teaching Vivid: Show, Don’t Tell
You are probably familiar with the writing move SHOW, DON'T TELL. However, do you recognize its potential as a teaching move? Enjoy the start of two journeys with two students who are seeing their potential unfold.
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Powerful Punctuation!
Punctuation is a pesky problem. Third grade students often forget their punctuation, writing an entire story without a single period in sight. As I launched writing workshop this year, I've been looking for ways to show my students that punctuation can add voice and meaning to their piece of writing.
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An Invitation to Make Writing That Matters
Teaching writing isn't easy. We can get lost in all that needs "fixing" in our students' work, lost in the standards and district curriculum maps, lost in the products we need to hang on a wall for a display. We find our way when our WHY is nearest to our hearts: Why do our students need to write well? How will writing play a role in their lives? How will writing make their lives more meaningful? What matters the most when it comes to teaching young writers?
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Blending Instruction: The One Stop Meeting Space
With the easel at my left (I am right handed), document camera, computer or iPad on my right, and a swivel chair all my tools are at my fingertips! There's no need to move across the room to see the screen or make an adjustment to my technology. The students and I have access to everything in one space. This one-stop meeting space allows the students to maintain focus on the learning and not the tools.
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Offering Choice in the Planning Process
As in all aspects of writing workshop, students should have choice in their planning process.
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Fault Lines in the Constitution: A Review, Five Tips, + Giveaway!
This new book by Cynthia and Sanford Levinson is a treasure trove of information as well as a handy example of many elements of inspiring nonfiction writing.
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Knowing My Writers
September is a get-to-know-you month. A community-building-ice-breaker-month. September is a settling-in month, a becoming-comfortable month, a building-relationship month. It's an ask-the-parents-about-their-child month. A stack of papers month. Artwork created month. September is a launching month, a set-the-vision month, a build-enthusiasm for the work ahead month. September is an exhausting month, but a month that reveals much about the 24 third graders who inhabit room 215 with me this year.
