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.
Category: writing workshop
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
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Where do your minilessons live?
How do we keep these minilessons alive for our kids? What do we do to make sure our kids have these anchor charts to reference as they begin drafting, revising, editing?
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A Tale of Teachers: Collaboration, Community, Connection
Once upon a time, there was a teacher who became a better teacher by connecting with other passionate educators...
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A Closer Look
Try typing out a mentor text to get a closer look.
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Writing Workshop Feels Better with Less
Our workshop was feeling forced, unnatural, and just rushed! We struggled to fit it all in and share time (the most valued time) was cut short with only 1 or 2 writers sharing each day. Something had to give. Writers weren't growing, I wasn't conferring, and it just didn't feel calm and productive. I reflected on our workshop, the work of the writers, and the choices I was making, but I couldn't figure out what was making me feel so unsettled.
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Writers ARE Readers: A Review and a Giveaway
Writers ARE Readers explores the connection between reading and writing instruction.
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Using The Writer’s Notebook To Grow Ideas:Diving Into Information Writing
Start students on the road to thinking about topics they might become interested in researching and writing about from day one.
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Writing Information Books with Voice and Beauty: Diving Into Information Writing Blog Series
When I was a kid, our town library had a whole special room filled with children's books. It was one of my favorite places in the world. That was where I fell in love with Corduroy, and Caps for Sale, Where the Wild Things Are, and later, Matilda, and Superfudge, and The Babysitters Club. But another thing I remember about… Continue reading Writing Information Books with Voice and Beauty: Diving Into Information Writing Blog Series
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Infusing Information Writing Throughout the Day: Diving Into Information Writing
A recovering hater of information writing, this post is my first step towards bringing information writing to life for my third graders! It is a vision and collection of possibliities for infusing information writing across the curriculum through the day.
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Allowing Student Choice within Information Writing: Diving into Information Writing
How do you encourage students when beginning the writing process for information writing? Give them choices!
