This post can be a jumping off point for learning more about how explicit phonics instruction can be connected to a joyful independent writing workshop for young children
2023 is around the corner! Will you choose a OLW to inspire your new year? Will you encourage your students to choose their own OLW?
If you have ever felt that you were going through the motions of a minilesson, know that there are plenty of other ways you can choose to gather as a community and launch writing time. Here are ten alternatives for beginning a writing workshop session – – with joy, intention, and inspiration.
Making space for writing is a gift. Please join us in writing and sharing a slice of life with the #TWTBlog community!
We encourage a growth mindset in classrooms. We don’t permit children to put themselves down. So why do we do this to ourselves?
As we head into a season of thanksgiving and celebrations, it is worth it to take the time to simply pause and reflect on writing with our students.
So grateful for the #TWTBlog community today! We hope you’ll join us in writing and sharing a slice of life.
What can we discover about voice when we make our own writing–and our students’ works–the focus of study like we do any other mentor text?
Conferring is a powerful tool to meet the needs of individual writers, but it often feels like students are passive participants in these conversations. Engaging students as partners in this work helps kids see themselves as authors and grow their writing abilities.
The Setup: Help Desk, Open for Business It started out like any other writing workshop time. Kids were settling into their work spots, some grabbing keyboards, others tapping away on their iPad screens. There was a certain level of productive noise as students figured out what projects they wanted to work on and how, and […]
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