Write. Share. Give. We invite you to join the #TWTBlog community in the Slice of Life Story Challenge today! (It's always worth the time!)
Personal Writing Calendars for Each Student
With a personal writing calendar, each kid can see what is going to happen in the unit of study, and has the power to adjust it.
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Call for Welcome Wagon Volunteers!
#TWTBlog is looking for volunteers to be part of our Welcome Wagon for the March Slice of Life Story Challenge. If you've sliced in prior years, we hope you'll consider joining this important team!
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Horse-Sitting and How-to Writing
A silver lining of teaching remotely has been opportunities, like this one, to elevate authentic reasons to read and write. Kids are curious about how others do things, and they have so much real-world expertise to share. A strategy such as this one gives our youngest writers access to topics that might otherwise exceed their emergent writing skills.
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The Storming of the Capitol
In response to today's events at the U.S. Capitol, our team would like to share some thoughts with you as you prepare for tomorrow with students.
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Seeking Prize Donations for the 14th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge
Two Writing Teachers offers prizes to participants of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. At the present time, we are seeking readers of our blog who are willing to donate a prize for the participants of the Slice of Life Story Challenge .
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#SOL21: Welcome to a New Year of the Slice of Life Story Challenge
Ahhhh, it's the first Slice of Life Tuesday of the new year. What an opportunity to kick off 2021 writing and celebrating the community here at Two Writing Teachers Blog. We also have a roundup of OLW posts from #TWTBlog Co-Authors.
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What Now? Pause. Observe. Reflect.
There is a freshness in a new year that can feel like an opportunity to evaluate our practices. In this post, I'm sharing what I'm doing to determine where I am and where I want to go. Maybe you want to come along too!
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SOL Tuesday #SOL20
It's the final SOL Tuesday of 2020!
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SOL Tuesday #SOL20
Please drop the link your slice of life story. Remember to give some comment love to at least three other Slicers' blog posts today.
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Winter Break + Holiday Wishes
The Two Writing Teachers Team is taking a short winter break to rest and recharge. While we’re looking forward to our blogging break, we have a lot in store for 2021! Learn more in this post.
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Tools for Note-Taking
There are multiple potential hurdles that prevent students from becoming effective informative writers, including possible resource texts that may be above their benchmarks, as well as students' lack of experience with specific strategies for note-taking and organization of their thoughts. The use of thinking maps, especially circle maps and tree maps, to help develop their note-taking and informative writing skills can't be overstated when supporting students to becoming more engaged in their writing.
