Visualizing a plan helps students see their story before putting it to paper.
Write, Share, Give: It’s SOL time
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 Slicers who link below. SHARE YOUR SLICE WITH THE WORLD TODAY! TWT T-SHIRT FUNDRAISER Thanks to this wonderful community, we raised $277.82 through sales of our Slice of… Continue reading Write, Share, Give: It’s SOL time
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Some Notes from the September 22nd, 2014 TCRWP Conference
Some notes from the September 22nd. TCRWP one-day conference, Units of Study: Implementing Rigorous, Coherent Writing Curriculum for Grades 6-8 presented by Mary Ehrenworth. Something worth charting - a visual for how workshop goes: is it clear to us? is it clear to our students? This graphic comes from the notebook of my colleague Rosemarie, who… Continue reading Some Notes from the September 22nd, 2014 TCRWP Conference
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Creative Writing is Not Hot
Each year for the past nineteen years, the International Reading Association has published a list of What's Hot and What's Not in literacy education in their magazine, Reading Today. The list is based on surveys of twenty five of the world's top literacy gurus, such as Richard Allington, P. David Pearson, and Timothy Rasinski. Survey respondents were… Continue reading Creative Writing is Not Hot
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What’s An On-Demand?
On-demand assessments allow us to check and see, rather than speculate, on what kids already know and can do. Then we can make well-informed choices about what to teach.
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A Tool for Talking During the Workshop
Kathy Collins inspired a new writing tool in my classroom!
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Write, Share, Give: It’s SOL time
"You are an expert at your own life. Nobody else is." --Jen Bryant
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Starting the year with Slice of Life writing.
As I mentioned in my post last week, my students’ first day of school writing surveys revealed a strong aversion to writing and a sense of “I have nothing to really write about.” So, we have spent most of our writing workshop time collecting writing ideas and storytelling; my sixth graders have learned, much to… Continue reading Starting the year with Slice of Life writing.
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Will you join us for dinner?
RSVP by 10/31 if you plan to join us for the Slicer Dinner at NCTE.
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Inquiry-Based Centers in Grades 3-8
Inquiry-based centers introduce kids to mentor texts while helping them find their own mentor texts.
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Wild Things! Review and a Giveaway
I enjoyed this book as a fan of children's literature, but it is also a valuable resource to teachers of literacy.
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Sharing the Work: Assigning Teacher Leaders for Unit Planning
There is an adage: if the teacher is working too hard, the students aren't working hard enough. There are many cases where this is true: in a writing conference when the teacher is doing all of the talking, during the revision process when a student is following a teacher's notated directions, in a lesson where the… Continue reading Sharing the Work: Assigning Teacher Leaders for Unit Planning
