Are you a literacy coach? Here are three ideas to try next year.
Writing with Emotion: A Review of Ida, Always
Ida, Always is a gentle and honest picture book for helping young children deal with and talk about loss. It's also an excellent mentor text you can use in writing workshop.
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Respect, React, and Write–My Three Reflections
Three important reflections inspired by teaching poetry to fifth-grade writers
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Summer Writing: A Confession and a Goal
All of us at Two Writing Teachers are thinking about and planning for summer writing. Summer writing inspiration for our students and summer writing goals for ourselves. Kathleen wrote this fabulous post about using QR codes to support students' summer notebook writing. Beth shared inspiration in her recent Summer Writing Bucket List post. And Melanie reflected on… Continue reading Summer Writing: A Confession and a Goal
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Welcome to SOL Tuesday!
Let your stories flow from your mind to your fingers and let them all surprise you.
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Go-To Digital Tools for Writing Workshop
Digital tools can transform your teaching by allowing students to have a writing community beyond the classroom walls, be innovative, make meaningful connections to other writers and students, have more resources readily available, and have true, authentic reasons for writing.
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Reflections and Refinements: The Year Ahead
I packed the books, cleared the tables and turned in my keys. It's an official end to the school year. As I sit down in my car, my head, and my heart begins to reflect on the year, the successes, the trials and what could've been
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DIY Literacy: A Review & Giveaway
DIY Literacy will give you the tools you need to reach all your students
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Expository Leads + Giveaways!
Challenging students to push past their safe zones of writing has been a challenge all year. We all reaped some great rewards as the year came to a close.
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Summer Writing Bucket List
What's on your summer writing bucket list? You don't need to have a novel hiding in your desk drawer to call yourself a writer. All the small things add up. If you don't have a list going already, here's a little inspiration for Summer 2016.
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Classroom Takeaways from #NJSCBWI16
Sharing some highlights from the New Jersey Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Annual Conference, which took place this past weekend.
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Welcome to SOL Tuesday!
Ah, summer the springboard of our stories!
