celebration · publishing · reflections

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR: PUBLISHING PARTIES

Beth Moore offers a collection of ten publishing party ideas you can use to celebrate your students' writing.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Slicing Time

The weekly call for slice of life stories.

guest blogger · poetry · writing workshop

Launching a Year of Writing With Poetry

Jenny Maehara believes poems are wonderful as a launching point for writing because students can write many poems in a unit and feel like prolific writers from the start. Find out how students can learn the habits of writers and the routines of writing workshop while crafting meaningful pieces using a balance of different details and thoughtful structure in Jenny's guest blog post.

article · writing

The Draft Series

Draft is a weekly essay series in The New York Times about the importance and art of writing. The weekly Draft essay is one of the first things I look for in my Sunday paper since it pushes me to become a better writer.

charts · foreign language · growth mindset · guest blogger

Anchor Charts in the World Language Classroom? Mais Oui!

Learn how literacy coach Mindi Rench has helped middle school world language teachers to construct charts with their students, which has helped students' writing in French and Spanish.

guest blogger · primary grades · writing workshop

What Would They Say?

What would your students say if they were asked what writing workshop means to them? Find out what a group of first graders value about writing workshop in Betsy Hubbard's guest blog post.

primary grades · topics

I don’t know what to write. Really? Really.

Sarah Picard Taylor provides you with five ideas to get K - 2 writers writing when they find themselves stuck.

guest blogger · reflections · Reflective Practice

Teaching Reflective Writers

Dana Murphy shares some thoughts about the expectations we place on students when we ask them to reflect on their writing.

compliment · conferences · conferring

Remember to Compliment

Take the time to compliment every child in every kind of conference you do.

guest blogger · writers

What’s in a Name?

Christy Weisiger believes in calling students "writers". Calling students writers gives students automatic entry into the classroom writing community. And that sometimes changes the way they will feel about writing for the rest of their lives.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Slice of Life Story Challenge

WRITE your slice. SHARE your link. GIVE some comments to (at least three) other slicers. If you’re leaving your comment early in the day, please consider returning this evening or tomorrow to read some of our evening posters’ slices.

conferring · guest blogger · mentor texts · minilesson · writing · writing workshop

Teaching Toolkits: Making Instruction Visible

Anna Gratz Cockerille provides tips for organizing and developing teaching toolkits you can use across the school year.