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Category: writing workshop
Five Words to Get You Started with Conferring
Keep this conferring tip in your back pocket.
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Quiet Writers: What do they really need?
Hiding in the piles of writing were quiet writers, whose empty folders cried out for help. These writers became my focus for the next two weeks, and this post. Quiet writers cry out for help in all our classrooms. Reading the work of the writers in our room was just the beginning; teaching the writer demands conversation with the writer.
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End of Workshop Share & Reflection Time
Kids learn more when they are given time to reflect on their learning, self-assess, and check in on goals they are working toward. That's what the end of workshop share and reflection time is for, and too often it gets cut short, or left out completely.
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Brave Spelling
How can we encourage our youngest writers to use brave spelling? How can we help them overcome their fear of getting it wrong?
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Demonstration Writing: Sometimes They Need To See “Writing Thinking”
Making my writing thinking visible to my students has given them another tool to “get unstuck”...
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In Thanks: Books That Built a Writing Teacher
What are the books that have shaped you as a teacher of writing? Reflecting today, in thanks, for the authors and books that have influenced my life as a teacher.
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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge on #TWTBlog
Welcome to the Slice of Life Story Challenge on this great Tuesday. We are so glad you are joining us today.
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Living the Life of a Writer
At this point of the school year, your writing workshop is probably in full swing. You are chugging along through your writing curriculum, and you are probably using checklists and rubrics to assess your young writers' developing skills. Today's post is a reminder to step back and think not only about the discrete writing skills… Continue reading Living the Life of a Writer
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Drilling Down into the Writing
Of the many ways I gain an understanding of my writers, my favorite and most valuable is gathering up all the writing and diving into reading ALL the students’ work.
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A Short & Sweet Minilesson Formula
There is a formula that I use, time and time again, to adapt my own minilessons. Yes, this formula helps me keep my minilessons to about ten minutes and makes planning more streamlined, but more importantly this formula helps me with one of my personal goals as a teacher: student engagement.
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The View from Pennsylvania: A Trip to Highlights Foundation
A little over a year ago, Stacey posted about an "Unworkshop" at a place called the Highlights Foundation. Her experience sounded blissful and it soon became something on my bucket list. I then began looking for workshop opportunities at this special little place in Pennsylvania. What I found was that they offered a variety… Continue reading The View from Pennsylvania: A Trip to Highlights Foundation
