I purchased an extra Moleskine Notebook in August when I was buying for my students since they come in packs of three. I wasn’t sure I’d ever use the 21st one for myself, but kept my mind open to it (Remember the “master writer’s notebook” idea!?!?!). However, after that whole thing didn’t work [...]
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Ruth and I are flattered that over 100 people have linked to Two Writing Teachers, since we started blogging here a little over six months ago. We just found out yesterday that we’re considered B-List Bloggers, which means we have “high authority” in the blog world.
Since being A-Listed means that there are over 500 [...]
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WN Entry – Fiction pg. 1
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Today’s Writing Workshop Teaching Point came right out of Calkins and Cruz’s Short Fiction Book – Session 1. While I used the skeleton of their lesson, my demonstration was all my own.
During the active [...]
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A charge for today’s Writer’s Notebook Wednesday: Think about how proud you are of someone or something you’re proud of and write about it. My entry can be found by clicking here. Ruth’s entry can be located by clicking here.
Please leave a comment or use Mr. Linky to link your WN Entry to this post.
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I couldn’t be prouder of my students today. I felt the need to boast about them to my husband when I got home from work this evening since they had a very intense discussion about the revision of one of our classroom rules this afternoon. (See Rule #1 on the photo, which has [...]
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Touchstone Text: Knuffle Bunny Too — Craft Moves Chart
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One of the many books I’m going to use as a touchstone text is Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems. Why? My kids simply loved it! [...]
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Ruth and I have been toying with the idea of changing the format of our blog. Well, this morning we finally did it. We’re using a new template on WordPress with TWO sidebars and a blue & green motif (before we were all blue). All of the same information is still here, [...]
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I was talking to Ruth yesterday and realized I needed a place to “showcase” (I put that in quotes because I think it’s a bit ridiculous to use that word in this context) my artsy side. I decided, rather than clogging up this blog with non-writing related stuff, I’d start my own blog for [...]
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I picked up a book of poetry edited Lee Bennett Hopkins, Wonderful Words, at the New England Mobile Book Fair earlier this month. It was one I hadn’t seen before. Everything inside of it are poems about writing, reading, listening and speaking. I particularly like one called “I Am the Book” by [...]
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I baked two kinds of cupcakes in honor of my students’ achievement. If this doesn’t say “I’m proud of your accomplishment,” then I don’t know what does!
Dotted Decorations
Tiny Sprinkles
Waiting patiently to be taken to school
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Play along here – Wordless Wednesday
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Well, it’s a disaster!
Remember this past summer when I had this idea to recopy all of my old entries into one master writer’s notebook to use for demonstrations in my classroom? Well, I started recopying and found it tedious. But I kept at it and then started using the remaining pages for new [...]
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My Art Tools: Pastels, Erasers, & A Glass of Diet Coke
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Writer’s Notebook Wednesday will be back next week.
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Tomorrow afternoon in Science Class I’m going to start teaching my kids how to transfer their note cards into details they can use in paragraphs for their Solar System Planet Book. Hence, I needed a model to demonstrate with. Therefore, I spent a bit of time this evening drafting my own report on [...]
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pic bk announcement
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Instead of writing short stories, we’re having our students write picture books. (Did this last year… loved it and HIGHLY recommend it.)
In order to get the kids excited and immerse them, I’m asking them to bring in their favorite [...]
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Look no further than In Other Words, which is a site that posts a quote daily and asks you to write off of that quote. Today’s quote comes from Norbert Platt and is particularly inspiring. (You can also view the quote on Catchwords.) Enjoy and happy writing!
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Today is not a day for loafing around in pajamas. Today is not just a day for surfing the web. Today is not just a day for reading magazines on the couch. No, no. Today is a day for reflection. Today is a day when we celebrate one of the [...]
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Sometimes I feel that as teachers we are so focused on preparing kids for the next level that we forget what writing can do for them right now. And even more often, we forget what a gift we are giving them by instilling the habit of writing everyday.
This weekend my husband’s 88 year old grandparents came [...]
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Inspired by Davis and Hill’s Book The No-Nonsense Guide to Teaching Writing: Strategies, Structures, and Solutions, which is published by Heinemann, I began giving my students weekend writing assessments last year. One of the girls in my class suggested that I change-up the Weekend Writer’s Notebook Assessment Form (which I had already [...]
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I’m a big proponent of Responsive Classroom, which places as much value on the social curriculum as the academic curriculum. (I attending a Responsive Classroom Institute during the Summer of 2006. It was excellent, informative, and exceedingly helpful to me as a teacher!)
Even if you’re teaching in a school that doesn’t do R.C., [...]
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Ruth liked the idea of keeping all of my OLWs in the same binder. Hence, I decided to go back to the 2007 OLW Word Up List and created pages that illustrate the following words:
my
delight
perfect
balance (This is my OLW for 2008.)
seek
I’m hoping to finish (over the course of the next couple of weeks), [...]
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steps
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I’m took the first OLW Challenge of the New Year this evening. I know I’m not submitting this for the OLW Contest since the “Steps” Contest ended a two weeks ago. However, I thought it would be neat to do [...]
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Yesterday I checked in on a blog that is becoming a favorite — Cool People I Know. Little Purple Cow (aka Stephanie) had posted a poem in a form called etheree. (It’s a focus on syllables. Each line gains a syllable until you reach the last line of 10.) Her poem inspired me to write one [...]
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