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WRITE. SHARE. GIVE. IT’S SOL TIME.
It's Tuesday - time to share your Slice with the Two Writing Teachers Community. Here is a chart from last week's Teachers College Reading and Writing Project August Writing Institute at Columbia University. It may help you with ideas for topics. Happy Slicing!
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Visual Writer Introductions
Fostering a nurturing writing community at the beginning of the school year means taking the time to build a community of writers. Here's an artistic way you can have students introduce themselves, and their quirks, to their peers.
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RECAP: Sharpen Your Workshop Routines Blog Series
ICYMI: A look back at our blog series about sharpening workshop routines.
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Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Don’t Skip Share Time
A menu of possibilities for share time
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Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Conferring Best Practices
When we watch experts confer with student writers, we are often stunned at the way in which they seem to pull teaching points out of thin air. Not all of us confer so effortlessly. Preparation, organization, and data collection will each go a long way toward ensuring your conferring is stronger than ever this year.
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Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Writing Centers to Organize All Your Materials
Every year, around this time, I start having dreams about setting up my classroom. In the classroom of my dreams, I'm moving around small circular tables, unfurling a brand new rug for the meeting area (the kind with the squares in bright colors), setting up a very large classroom library, and putting labels and color… Continue reading Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Writing Centers to Organize All Your Materials
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Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: The Importance of Talk Within the Workshop Process
Writing is hard. Letting our ideas float in the space around us makes the words come to the page more easily.
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Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: 5 Secrets to Great Meeting Areas
Are you looking to make the most out of your classroom's meeting area? Find out how to create and maintain a meeting area that will function as the focal point of your writing workshop.
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Tuesday Slice of Life
Serve up your slice of life story today.
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Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Setting up the Writer’s Notebook for a Year of Writing
Welcome back, readers! We have returned from our July break refreshed and ready for a new school year of sharing ideas, resources, and teaching practices here at Two Writing Teachers. For many of us, the first day of school is right around the corner, and we are turning our attention to preparing our lesson… Continue reading Sharpen Your Workshop Routines: Setting up the Writer’s Notebook for a Year of Writing
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WRITE. SHARE. GIVE. IT’S SOL TIME.
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” ― Mary Oliver
