Classroom Resources for the SOLSC

by Stacey Shubitz

If you’re leading a Slice of Life Story Challenge in your classroom in March (or any month for that matter), there are a few things you might want to have. First, you’ll want… Read More →

QR Codes

by Ruth Ayres

My kids are junkies when it comes to QR Codes. They love spotting them. They are addicted to the thrill of scanning. They like the possibility of where the QR Code might take… Read More →

Infographics

by Ruth Ayres

Words + pictures have always intrigued me. As a scrapbooker I use words + pictures to document life. As a blogger, I know when an image is included it always impacts me more.… Read More →

Make Writing Workshop Work Better

by Stacey Shubitz

I will be consulting with a couple of teachers next month who have questions about how to make Writing Workshop work better for their special needs students.  One teacher has a student with… Read More →

Professional Talk: The Walls of Your Classroom

by Stacey Shubitz

Each week I receive, The Big Fresh, an e-newsletter from Choice Literacy.  This week’s feature is entitled “There’s Room for Me Here.” As I began reading through the article, it resonated with the… Read More →

Updating Our Website

by Stacey Shubitz

Have you been to the Two Writing Teachers Website yet?  If so, you’ll have noticed that it’s a place where we have some resources for quite a few units of study.  However, during… Read More →

Paper: A Resource

by Stacey Shubitz

I couldn’t locate the dark lines my students used to use underneath white paper when they started publishing their persuasive letters today. Therefore, I did a Google Search to find some. I didn’t… Read More →

Publishing Personal Narratives

by Stacey Shubitz

Student Reflection Sheet for Personal Narratives Originally uploaded by teachergal I updated the Personal Narrative Page on the Two Writing Teachers Website to include a student reflection sheet and an in-depth comment sheet… Read More →

Those Shoes: The Mentor Text Teaching Document

by Stacey Shubitz

I worked on the Reading-Writing Connections Document for Those Shoes until 12:30 a.m. Here are two examples of the way I set it up: Craft Move Page Number(s) Why the Author Might Be… Read More →

titles.

by Ruth Ayres

Found this fun blog post which gives great tips for writing titles.  Have fun checking it out:  The Sexy Art of Writing Headlines That Kill.  (I can envision focus lessons for many different… Read More →