The director at one school told me, "My main priorities are these: 1) being outdoors, and 2) reading and writing." My kind of place!
Five Grammar Lessons With Sneaky Double-Duty Goals
Check out these quick, easy grammar lessons that will clean up and power up your students' writing.
Welcome to SOL Tuesday
WRITE a slice of life story on your own blog. SHARE a link to your post in the comments section. GIVE comments to at least three other SOL bloggers. Inspiring words that are speaking to me today:
Ideas for planning Small Group Instruction
Small group instruction is a powerful way to reach and teach more students in your classroom!
Discovering and Developing Student Writer Identity
For writers to grow, they must develop writer identities. How do we help them do that?
Family Dialogue Journals
Can a Family Dialogue Journal help build stronger home-school connections through written conversation?
3 Steps to Building A Learning Community: Vision. Intention. Purpose.
The young writers sitting in our classroom will rise above the fears and struggles of being a writer, but it will take intentional planning, repetitive teaching, daily writing, and reteaching. Writing is hard work. Students don't become writers because we have writing workshop. Writers become writers because teachers have clear intentions and a vision of what's possible.
An Easy Guide to Introduce Slice of Life Writing
Three steps to introduce Slice of Life Writing to your students
Making Progress…Without Getting Frustrated!
A little reflection after the first days of school.
It’s Slice of Life Tuesday!
WRITE a slice of life story on your own blog. SHARE a link to your post in the comments section. GIVE comments to at least three other SOL bloggers. And a little inspiration:
Red Dot Side, Green Dot Side, Revisited
With very good intentions, we teach kids to do their best to really finish a story before they move on to the next one. However, a little bit of flexibility will go a long way in increasing engagement, volume, and independence in young writers.
Pausing on September 11th
Today, September 11th, is the fifteenth anniversary of the horrific attacks that took place in 2001. We, at Two Writing Teachers, pause today to remember all the lives that were lost and the heroes who gave their all in trying to save others. Fred Rogers once said, "When I was a boy and I would… Continue reading Pausing on September 11th

