Writing is a big animal. A subjective animal as well when it comes to teaching our youngest writers.
Category: writing workshop
Keeping a writing blog: taking our writing workshop online
With the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge just around the corner, perhaps some of you are thinking more than ever about starting a class blog just for writing. Over the past few years, we have taken our writer's notebook online in my classroom, not just for the month of March, but for the entire… Continue reading Keeping a writing blog: taking our writing workshop online
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Writing in Preschool. Where Does it All Fit?
"People who are comfortable composing are much more likely to have strong identities as writers than people who don't." Katie Wood Ray & Matt Glover
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Introducing the Support Team for the March SOLSC!
Join us in introducing a great team to make the March SOLSC even better!
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WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOL TIME
With our Slice of Life Story Challenges just around the corner, there is still time to encourage friends and colleagues to create their blogs and get ready to join us as we "write, share, give" in the month of March. I have two colleagues who seem almost ready to take the plunge, and one who is… Continue reading WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOL TIME
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In The Beginning…Writing in Preschool
“Children’s play helps them focus on common problems in the format they know best: story." Vivian Gussin Paley
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Reflection and Growth: Writing in Preschool
Have you ever found yourself in this place? A place where you begin to see something missing and immediately want to change? Be better? I hope so!
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Following through with “I do. We do. You do.” in writing workshop.
Yesterday, Stacey wrote a thoughtful post about how we lead our students to ownership of their learning habits, and she concluded with these wise words: “Doing something for someone else doesn’t help them grow. The magic happens when we gradually release responsibility for something over time so others can flourish as a result of our… Continue reading Following through with “I do. We do. You do.” in writing workshop.
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Tapping Into Motivation
How do you motivate students and tap into their interests? What are you doing to create an environment that allows students to take a risk?
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Making space for writing (lots of it) in Social Studies
I love teaching writing and reading workshop, but there’s a special place in my heart for the third subject I teach: social studies. Part of the reason for this is just a love of history, and part of the reason is because it allows me to reach into my reading/writing bag of tricks in order… Continue reading Making space for writing (lots of it) in Social Studies
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Write, Share, Give: SOLS Time
“Write what should not be forgotten.” ― Isabel Allende
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TARA’S ONE LITTLE WORD FOR 2014
One. Little. Word. I have been in search of my one little word for some time now, without much success. The more I thought about it, the more anxious and uncertain I became...especially because I had already committed to writing a post about it along with the Two Writing Teachers team. What was I to… Continue reading TARA’S ONE LITTLE WORD FOR 2014
