Each morning, my husband and I stumble bleary-eyed toward our espresso machine. His drink is a single shot, the shorter and blacker the better. My drink is an Americano, the taller and milkier the better. He claims his small shot is just the amount he needs to get him going and nothing more, while I prefer… Continue reading Volume Matters
Remembering the Miracles of 9/11/01
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” -Harry S. Truman
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Fox’s Garden Book Review and Giveaway!
Give a wordless book a try during your next writing workshop and see the possibilities.
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SOL Tuesday
We're still selling Slice of Life t-shirts ($20) on Ink to the People. All of the proceeds from the shirt will benefit the Pajama Program.
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So, what does it take to be a great writing teacher? Students’ point of view.
For the past many years, writing workshop in our middle school ended in sixth grade. They would, of course, continue to write in seventh grade, but that every other day of writing workshop ritual - the writer’s notebook, the sketching and exploring of their writers’ identities through different genres of writing - would now be… Continue reading So, what does it take to be a great writing teacher? Students’ point of view.
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5 Ideas to Create a Classroom of Writers
How do you help your students establish their identity as writers?
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More Ways to Write About Reading
I remember now why it is important to keep a reader's notebook.
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Information Writing: Upping the Ante on Text Features
It's likely that in many writing workshop classrooms, the year is launching with narrative writing. Coming just around the bend, perhaps very soon for teachers who began the school year in early August, is expository writing. The first expository unit may come in the form of any one of a multitude of types of essay units, or perhaps, in… Continue reading Information Writing: Upping the Ante on Text Features
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Okay, But What Would You Do?
This week has been full of writing workshop conundrums and dilemmas!
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Chalk-A-Bration: Poetry and Chalk Celebration
Celebrate Chalketry on the last day of each month!
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Would You Like a Slice of Life T-Shirt?
Do good while professing your love of Slice of Life Story writing. All proceeds from the sale of this t-shirt will benefit the Pajama Program.
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Setting up the reading journal for a year of writing about reading
Ever since I began teaching, my students’ reading journals have been as much “the gateway to all the work we will be doing from September to June” (to borrow a phrase from a post I wrote about writing notebooks) in reading workshop, as their writing journals are in writing workshop. On the first day of… Continue reading Setting up the reading journal for a year of writing about reading
