If you are looking for ways to increase a young writer’s agency at home–either as an educator or as a parent–here are some things you might want to consider.
Empowering Students with a Kid-Friendly Tool for Self-Assessment: Amping up Agency Blog Series
When students can articulate how they have grown as writers and can name the strategies they’ve used, we help see that they can do it again next time.
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Tools and Resources That Support Student Agency in the Kindergarten Writing Workshop: Amping Up Agency Blog Series
You've probably heard a young child say, "I can do it all by myself!" in one breath, and then in the next breath they are asking you for help. As children make sense of the world and learn how to do more things for themselves, they crave structure and support from adults. Providing children with a variety of tools and resources and teaching them how and when to use them, supports students in developing a sense of "big kid-ness" and agency over their own writing.
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Five Read Aloud Books for an Agency Study: Amping up Agency Blog Series
I’ve put together a text set of newer picture books to explore the concept of agency with kids. Imagine how it might look across a week to read these books aloud, co-creating an anchor chart with similarities between the actions of the main characters. What might we anticipate writers noticing? What connections might kids make to writing workshop? How might these characters serve as mentors as we collectively build our writing workshop, ensuring it is a place where each writer is encouraged and challenged to make decisions, to initiate the action they need to move their writing work forward?
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A Writer’s Choice: Amping Up Agency Blog Series
It is by making choices that students build agency within our workshops and learn how to navigate the struggles that all writers encounter.
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Slice of Life Tuesday
It's the first Tuesday in February, which means we're getting close to our month-long writing challenge. Gear up by sharing a slice of life story with our writing community today.
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The Language to Develop Agency: Amping Up Agency Blog Series
Teachers can build and increase students’ agency by using specific phrases at when conferring, leading small groups, or holding reflection/share sessions at the end of a workshop.
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Introduction: Amping Up Agency Blog Series
This week the co-authors of Two Writing Teachers address various ways to increase students’ agency within their writing lives. This post provides an overview of what's to come.
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Growth through Vulnerability
It was through engaging in writing partnerships that I gained greater compassion for my own writers.
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Tackling Sentence Struggles With Older Writers
If you're a teacher of older students (3rd grade and up) and have ever found yourself asking what you can do for kids who are still struggling with basic capitalization and punctuation, you're not alone! Today's post provides ideas to support teaching and transfer of sentence writing conventions in authentic and fun ways with our older writers.
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Sign up for the 16th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge #SOL23
Attention new and returning Slicers: Please fill out this year’s participant information form. Filling out the form takes less than five minutes and helps us stay organized during the Challenge.
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