This week, our team at Two Writing Teachers plans to pause to reflect on this unusual school year, and share our thoughts on what we experienced and what shifts in our work we hope to see going forward.
It’s Tuesday: Welcome to the Slice of Life!
Write your piece! Share it via a comment on this post! Give feedback to others!
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Carve Out More Time for Writing
If your writing workshop has felt squeezed for time, then NOW is the time to chat with your grade-level colleagues or administrator about allocating more instructional time for the teaching of writing.
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Classroom SOLSC Week 5: Celebrations!
We've reached the final stretch of the Classroom SOLSC! How will you celebrate the end of the challenge?
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Recording, Revision and Repetition: Empowering Multilingual Writers
Recording for revision, encouraging translanguaging, and repetition are useful strategies to exalt and empower multilingual writers. As teachers of multilingual students, encouraging translanguaging and recording as revision is akin to telling students: every aspect of you is valued. Every aspect of you is important.
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It’s Tuesday: Welcome to Slice of Life!
Welcome to the Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge!
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An Interview with the Authors of The Responsive Writing Teacher + a Giveaway
Have you wanted to be a more responsive writing teacher, but weren't sure how to go about doing it? Melanie Meehan and Kelsey Sorum's new book provides a framework to help you hone a more child-centered apporach to the teaching of writing.
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Classroom SOLSC Week 4: Reflections
It's Week 4 of the Classroom SOLSC! What reflections do you have on the experience so far? How are you planning ahead for a celebration?
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Developing Students’ Content Vocabulary
The Cognitive Content Dictionary (CCD) was first introduced to me in my tier 1 Project Guided Language Acquisition Design training. It is both linguistically and culturally responsive and, above all, brings joy into the classroom.
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It’s Tuesday: Welcome to Slice of Life!
In this writing community, Tuesdays mean writing a slice of life, sharing it, and appreciating the writing of others through comments.
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A Peek Into A Journalism Unit
Journalism inspires students to write personally without as much vulnerability as personal narratives sometimes require. However, I still learned SO much about what these students cared about and who they are as people!
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Classroom SOLSC Week 3: Comments Make Community!
We are beginning Week 3 of the Classroom SOLSC! How are your student bloggers doing? This week, we will focus on how essential thoughtful comments are for bloggers. Please share your ideas on how you teach your writers to comment in meaningful ways in the comments of this post.
