audience · Author Spotlight Series · Joy · picture book

Make Your Audience’s Eyes Shine

Author Chana Stiefel shares how a maestro’s philosophy can help you connect with readers.

SOLSC Classroom Challenge · SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge- Expanding the Ideas

Students are more than halfway into the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge! We would love for you to share feedback and comments on the Padlet, whether you are participating with a class or not! If you joined the Challenge in March, then you know how much comments energize writers.

Author Spotlight Series

A Sneek Peek at the 8th Annual #TWTBlog Author Spotlight Series

Starting this Sunday, picture book authors, illustrators, and middle-grade authors will share their insights on writing, their processes, and the path to publishing on #TWTBlog's. We want to hear your thoughts throughout the week, so there's a book giveaway for those who share comments on each author's post!

character development · creativity · kindergarten

The Power of Animal Characters in Kindergarten Creative Writing

This year, I have been digging a bit deeper into my own reasoning for having children develop animal characters with human characteristics for their stories.

mentor author · mentor texts · poetry · tools of a poet · writing workshop

Make and Take: Poetry Lesson

Do you need a print-and-go poetry lesson? This can serve as a starting point for multiple age groups.

slice of life · writing workshop

Slice of Life Tuesday

It's Tuesday- join us for Slice of Life. Write your slice, share it, and leave comments for others.

ELL · poetry · reluctant writers

Found Poetry

Looking for a way to launch poetry writing or integrate poetry into your content studies? Try found poetry, a GLAD strategy that scaffolds free verse poetry writing for students, including multilingual learners and reluctant writers.

story ideas · topics · writing workshop

“I Don’t Have Anything to Slice About!”: Generating Ideas for the 2023 Classroom SOLSC

While we still have twenty-one days left in the Classroom SOLSC, you might already have students struggling to think of a topic. Today's post shares ideas for "slice-peration!"

writing workshop

Binaural Beats to Boost Writing?

Could binaural beats help me enter a flow state with my writing?? Could it help students?

community

One Writer at a Time: Fostering An Adult Writing Community

How one school invited their staff to come together as a community of writers and the impact that invitation had.

community · key beliefs · writer identity · writing workshop

And Then. . . IT IS MAGIC

I believe in communities like this one, where teachers of writers come together to learn and to share, where we do the writing work we are asking kids to do.

slice of life · writing workshop

It’s Tuesday. Welcome to the Slice of Life!

It's Tuesday! Please join us for Slice of Life. Write your slice of life story, share it by posting the permalink on TWT, and leave comments for others.