Not Just Your Run-of-the-Mill Biography Unit Study
4th Grade Teacher (& Slicer) Noor Shammas writes about her students’ Community Member Biography Project.
Author Archive
A Biography for Baseball Season + a Giveaway
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! (The Back Story) by Author Jonah Winter Though I do understand that what I’m being called on to do here is talk about my research process… Read More
Learning the Language of Lawyers: Writing Compelling Arguments
We are thrilled and honored to be guest blogging here this week. We are both huge fans of the blog, the Two Writing Teachers community and of Ruth and Stacey’s work. Having recently… Read More
Braving the Challenge: A Guest Post by Beth Scanlon
Braving the Challenge Inspired by my writing and the other Slicers’ work during the Slice of Life Challenge (SOLC) in March 2012, I decided to attempt the same with my ninth grade students… Read More
Ten Tips for Creating an Electronic SOLSC for Your Students
A Note from Stacey: I recently asked teachers who’ve led an blog-based Slice of Life Story Challenge, or SOLSC, with their students to share their expertise with me. After all, I’ve only led… Read More
Informational Writing Can Be Informational Learning: A Guest Blog Post by Christopher Lehman
Students’ informational writing can change dramatically when we include an extra step in between: 1) take notes, 2) experiment with those notes by teaching-through-writing, 3) write a draft.
Information Charts: A Guest Blog Post by Kristi Mraz and Marjorie Martinelli
We are so delighted to be guest blogging here at Two Writing Teachers. We know many teachers who use this invaluable resource and are honored to lend our thoughts on writing. It’s that… Read More
Taking the Art of Reflection Back into the Classroom
Joanne Toft has taught for more than 30 years and spent 6 years managing The Arts for Academic Achievementprogram for the Minneapolis Public Schools. Last year she returned to the classroom to teach… Read More
Digital Conferring Notebook
A Note from Stacey: A little over a year ago Amy Platt, who is a sixth grade teacher at Melissa Ridge Intermediate School in Melissa, Texas, contacted me with a question about something… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Needing To Take Care of The Nice Students, Too
A NOTE FROM STACEY: “Nice” children are often overlooked in the classroom because they go with the flow. I’ll admit, I was one of those teachers who often sacrificed a conference with one… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: How Can I Be A Teacher of Writers?
Deb Day has been teaching English and reading classes in northeast Iowa since 1989. In her current position she teaches speech, creative writing , ninth grade English, and coaches contest speech. She is… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Weaving the “Slice of Life” Routine into Writing Workshop
Tara Smith teaches writing workshop, Language Arts and Social Studies to sixth graders at a middle school in suburban New Jersey. Before she was a teacher, she was an editor first at the… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Starting The Year As Writers
Linda Baie just moved from the classroom after 20 years of teaching gifted students in an independent progressive school in Denver, Colorado. She is starting her second year as the school’s literacy coach,… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Self-Advocacy Begins with Reflection
Angela Stockman is the founder of the WNY Young Writers’ Studio, a community where teachers and young people come together to discover what good writing is, how to create it, and how to… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Growing as Writers through an Author Study
Stella Villalba teaches English as a Second Language at Beechwood Elementary in Columbus, Ohio. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she started her career in education teaching ESL in Asuncion, Paraguay. Stella also publishes… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: The Journey
Caroline Gonzalez currently works as an Instructional Support teacher for grades 1-3 in South Brunswick NJ. After 21 years of teaching, she is completing coursework to attain an Administrator’s License. She is the… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Savor a Book: Reading like a Writer
Edited by Ruth: Pssst…today is Mary Helen’s birthday! Won’t you join me in leaving comments on her blog post about one of her very favorite books? Mary Helen Gensch is currently a literacy… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Writer’s Notebooks: Traveling as a Pathway to Writing More (for You!)
Sarah Mulhern Gross has been a middle school language arts teacher and currently teaches 9th and 12th grade English. She has a keen interest in young adult fiction and nonfiction and strives to… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Patrick Allen
Patrick A. Allen is a literacy consultant and a 4th grade teacher from Denver, Colorado. He is the author of two Stenhouse books: Conferring: The Keystone of Reader’s Workshop and Put Thinking to… Read More
GUEST BLOG POST: Fostering a Love of Writing
Maureen Ingram has taught in cooperative preschools in the Washington, D.C. suburbs since September 2000, working primarily with three year olds, and mentoring adults – both parents and teachers – in their work… Read More
