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Good for the Brain
Want to help your students focus better during independent writing time? A recent NY Times piece by Daniel J. Levitin may hold the key to making this happen in your classroom.
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If You Ask Them
Stop lurking and start writing. It is the single most important thing you can do as a teacher of writing. It matters.
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Writing History in Many Forms
Want some fresh ways to channel your students to write about history? This post offers some light and fast tips that could easily be turned into weighty and meaningful instruction.
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How to Plan a Minilesson from Scratch
Minilessons are actually really easy to plan, and fun to teach. What? You don't believe me? Let me show you, right now, how to do it.
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My Re-Programming Process
Sometimes you just have to start over.
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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
