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.
Category: writing workshop
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.
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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!
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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.
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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?
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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!
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Three Tips to Avoid Overcommitting to First Words: Revision
Helping light the way to revision for our writers while honoring those first words.
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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.
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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!
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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.
