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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
steps Originally uploaded by teachergal 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… Read More
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… Read More
I stumbled into a colleague’s classroom on Tuesday and found a chart posted about line breaks. It included a poem by Zoe Ryder White, whose work I was unfamiliar with. (I’m a bit… Read More
I tried out the “One Little Word” Challenge and came up with this. Not great, but not bad for my first time participating, right? STILL: One Little Word Originally uploaded by teachergal
I’ve read Jacqueline Woodson’s Book Sweet, Sweet Memory to three classes now. However, I’ve never had such an intense discussion with any other group of children about Sweet, Sweet Memory as I did… Read More
Th entire fourth grade is going to be doing a report writing within science class (separate from our Writing Workshop). (It’s not actually a report since the final form will be an illustrated… Read More
So, I totally forgot to take photos of the pre-dinner routine. I’ll try for it this weekend & make another post on Inspiring Readers & Writers. So the bath time routine will have… Read More
Here are a few websites I thought may interest readers of this blog. Mary Helen Gensch, a writing coach for Whitko School District, shared this site for Graphic Organizers. There are maybe a… Read More
Link your entry about routines to us with Mr. Linky or post a comment. Click here for Stacey’s post. And here for Ruth’s (after dinnertime tonight).
Today’s lesson in the sixth grade class went along the lines of Ways to Be a Good Researcher. I taught: Complete your source sheet only when you know you’ll be taking notes… Read More
I had a little trouble deciding the routine I’d write about today. However, I wanted to pay hommage to my third and fourth grade French Teacher, so I chose the first routine of… Read More
Here’s a great link to some persuasive letter lessons, complete with a business letter template, which I’ve used with my students since I started teaching, over at Scholastic.com. True, it’s written for high… Read More
Our once peaceful dinner-time was beginning to be a point of contention for our almost-two-year-old who is becoming more and more independent with each passing minute. Monday night it reached a new height… Read More
Let’s be honest. How many of you out there about lose your mind during the research phase of expository writing? Here in Indiana, it is expected that beginning in 3rd grade, students use… Read More
Narrative Feedback to a Student Originally uploaded by teachergal When we returned from Winter Recess I had my students complete self-evaluations of their Writer’s Notebooks. (They do this in the middle and at… Read More
I’ve been celebrating a lot lately… My wedding, My students’ amazing achievements, and as of 5:40 this morning, my snow day. However, amid my joy, Ruth has been going through a more painful… Read More
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