This week my colleagues and I are writing posts that we hope will make your life a little easier. We’re sharing some ways to work smarter, not harder.
Work Smarter: Picture Books That Pack a Punch + Giveaways!
What picture books pack a punch for you in the workshop? Here are seven titles that are sure to give you bang for your buck.
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Work Smarter: Use checklists throughout a unit of study …and beyond
I’ll begin by being honest - I don’t like checklists. It’s a personal thing. Checklists make me anxious, they fill me with the fear of impending failure. As soon as I’ve taken the time to assemble a checklist, I am filled with a sense of dread. I wonder, how am I ever to accomplish any of… Continue reading Work Smarter: Use checklists throughout a unit of study …and beyond
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Work Smarter: Commenting on Student Writing
Seven tips to streamline the process of commenting on student writing.
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Share Your Slice of Life: It’s SOL Tuesday!
Welcome to November everybody!
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Work Smarter: 5 Tips for Checking Writer’s Notebooks Efficiently
Grace Chough led a session, "Turning Writer's Notebooks Into Workbenches, and Using Them to Work Deliberately Towards Big Goals," at the June 2014 TCRWP Writing Institute. She shared lots of smart thinking about the work students do in writer's notebooks. But there one particular thing she said that resonated with me since I used to… Continue reading Work Smarter: 5 Tips for Checking Writer’s Notebooks Efficiently
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Preview: Work Smarter, Not Harder Blog Series
Welcome to our “Work Smarter, Not Harder” Blog Series. Contrary to what your students may think, we know you don’t live at school. If the teaching of writing feels cumbersome to you, then stick with us this week. We’ll help you maximize your time so the teaching of writing will feel more enjoyable. A preview… Continue reading Preview: Work Smarter, Not Harder Blog Series
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What’s Your Writing Tic?
Read about writers' tics, and share your own.
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Using Assessment Tools to Teach Transference
Valuable lessons can be learned when an assessment tool designed for one genre is used to assess another.
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A Quick Guide to Workshop Lingo
Call it jargon, call it terminology, call it what you will. We have our own made-up words for things sometimes.
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One Little Word: Silence
Did you pick one little word this year? How's it going?
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Writing About Reading Begins With Thinking About Reading
Some weeks ago, when the school year was brand new, I wrote about setting up our Reading Journals for a year of writing about our reading. Now we are approaching the end of the first marking period, and the truth is that we are just beginning to be ready to write about our reading. I… Continue reading Writing About Reading Begins With Thinking About Reading
