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!
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.
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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.
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Slice of Life Tuesday
It's Tuesday- join us for Slice of Life. Write your slice, share it, and leave comments for others.
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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.
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“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!"
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Binaural Beats to Boost Writing?
Could binaural beats help me enter a flow state with my writing?? Could it help students?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Shared reading as a writing tool? Go for it!
Teachers always seem to be searching for extra minutes. Cycles of shared reading represent one way to thoughtfully reimagine how to make the most of each minute. When we thoughtfully (and playfully) integrate literacy, everyone wins!
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Classroom SOLSC Week 1- Ready, Set….
This week, let’s help our students develop that writing habit we established for ourselves during the March 2023 SOLSC! Many of us found that the expectation to write each day led us to live more like a writer- really looking for possibilities and stories in our days. Be sure to share some of your slices with your students and help them see where you found inspiration.
