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	<description>Teaching Kids.  Catching Minds.  872 Miles Apart.</description>
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		<title>A Thanksgiving Wish for You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Special thanks to Bonnie Kaplan for this photo.





Make a Smilebox greeting



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		<title>Mentoring Primary Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past eight days have been exceedingly busy, while also being exceedingly great.  First, Ruth was here and we spent a lot of time planning out the final third of our book.  Then, I traveled to Philadelphia for the NCTE Annual Convention.  On Monday, I was in a new school working with a dynamic group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5339&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Stacey</media:title>
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		<title>Chasing Dreams:  Part II</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/chasing-dreams-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/chasing-dreams-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[olw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had envisioned being able to share with you some of the dreams on my freshmen&#8217;s lists.  However, Monday we had a lock down drill smack in the middle of block two, altering our plans.  Then yesterday we had a fog delay, shrinking class minutes by half. It reminds me how we are constantly determining importance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5332&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Join us for today&#8217;s SOLSC!</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/join-us-for-todays-solsc-2/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/join-us-for-todays-solsc-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[slice of life]]></category>

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			<media:title type="html">Stacey</media:title>
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		<title>Poetry Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sylvia Vardell chaired &#8220;Poetry Party! Celebrating 2009 NCTE Poetry Award Recipient Lee Bennett Hopkins,&#8221; which Ruth blogged a little bit about on Friday.  This was by far the most fun I&#8217;ve ever had at an NCTE Session since it was complete with food, party favors, and distinguished children&#8217;s poets who all read original poetry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5310&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Stacey</media:title>
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		<title>Chasing Big Dreams:  Part I</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/chasing-big-dreams-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/chasing-big-dreams-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I rolled into my driveway around 8:30 last night.  Andy had given our kids late naps so they could stay up and see me.  This may not have been our best parenting move.  They were excited, but also tired.  Emotions swirled.  By 9:45 Andy and I were snuggled on the couch and there were no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5329&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Independence in the Primary Classroom Through Talk, Text, and Motivation</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/primaryindependence/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/primaryindependence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NCTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary grades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Wood Ray, Matt Glover, and Isoke Titilayo Nia hosted a session entitled &#8220;Independence in the Primary Writing Workshop,&#8221; which Ruth and I attended yesterday morning.  Ray, Glover, and Nia provided information about the ways to increase young children&#8217;s independence within the context of a Writing Workshop.  Here are my notes from the session, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5306&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Comics from a Real Life Experience</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/creating-comics-with-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/creating-comics-with-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were fortunate to cross paths into Kevin Hodgson when we were walking through the Convention Center at NCTE this afternoon.  He was leading a Tech on-the-Go Presentation about creating digital comics with students.  When Kevin asked for a volunteer to make a comic, we stepped up to the plate, creating a comic about our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5292&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Stacey</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">STACEY AND RUTH AND THE CUPCAKE</media:title>
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		<title>Tatum: Using the Pen to Rescue to Power</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/tatum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Let our testimony be our pen.” – Anonymous African American Male from Chicago
I found myself rushing to get my lunch from the Reading Terminal Market so I could eat it while listening to Alfred W. Tatum yesterday afternoon.  My sandwich landed up sitting in the bag for an hour and 15 minutes since I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5283&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swirling Thoughts from NCTE</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/swirling-thoughts-from-ncte/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/swirling-thoughts-from-ncte/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NCTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a good day, but what day at NCTE isn&#8217;t?  Since we just finished our last session and have dinner plans in a few minutes, you&#8217;re getting a list of swirling thoughts.  Expect more blog posts about NCTE  in the future.

Choice matters.  Today I’ve been inspired to stand up and defend student choice in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5279&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change &amp; Personal Narratives</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/sundaychutney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mentor texts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal narrative]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
“There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
As a child, I didn’t know much about change.  I moved from Brooklyn to New Jersey when I was a baby.  I switched schools in the fall of sixth grade, thereby dividing the first thirteen years of my schooling between two educational institutions.  I lived under the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5258&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Stacey</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">This week's mentor text.</media:title>
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		<title>A Few Random Bits of Life</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/a-few-random-bits-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/a-few-random-bits-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Right now I&#8217;m sitting in Stacey&#8217;s kitchen, thinking how good it is to be in the same house as my friend.


I already know I have a great class.  (We&#8217;ll see if I still feel this way after I get the sub notes for the three days I&#8217;m absent.)


Yesterday we spent a good portion of the class period in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5276&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ruth</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Delicious!</media:title>
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		<title>Slicin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/slicin/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/slicin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[slice of life]]></category>

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Please link your Slice of Life Story to this post by leaving a comment.
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			<media:title type="html">Stacey</media:title>
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		<title>Today.</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/today-2/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/today-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the new trimester.  This means two things:

I get to teach my own class starting today &#8212; English 9A with 26 students.
I barely slept last night and woke up early today.  This is typical behavior prior to the &#8220;first day of school.&#8221;  Starting a new trimester is like the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5255&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Ruth</media:title>
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		<title>Writing About Thanks</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/writing-about-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s just a little over a week to go before Thanksgiving.  Do you know what you&#8217;re most thankful for?  Want to ruminate about the things you&#8217;re most thankful for through writing?  If so, take a cue from Molly Irwin&#8217;s Blog, where she writes about the idea of recording the things for which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5266&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Blogs, Podcasting, and Digital Videos</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/ncte2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCTE&#8217;s Annual Convention in Philadelphia in next week.  I&#8217;m delighted to be chairing a session for some educators from California entitled &#8220;Integrating Blogs, Podcasting, and Digital Videos into 4th and 5th Grade Language Arts Classes.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the description of the session from the Convention Program:
The presenters will discuss (1) how blogs were integrated into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5204&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, to be 13 again.  Well, not really.</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/a-middle-school-mentor-text/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/a-middle-school-mentor-text/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve had 13, a collection of short stories edited by James Howe, sitting in my bookshelf for the past few years.  I bought it based on the recommendation of a staff developer at the TCRWP who shared Rachel Vail’s “Thirteen and a Half” at a Calendar Day I attended.  Since the book is geared towards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5245&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 11th</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/november-11th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<title>Formal and Informal Writing with Conventions</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/formal-and-informal-writing-with-conventions/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/formal-and-informal-writing-with-conventions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conventions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grammar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use conventions in my writer’s notebook and in e-mails. I tend to write with proper conventions when I’m IM-ing since I know it makes my message easier for my reader to decode when we’re writing back and forth rapidly. I write with conventions when I jot notes to my husband. I consistently write with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5241&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOLSC</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/solsc-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<title>Peer Conferring: Questions</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/peer-conferring-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m intrigued by peer conferring.  There&#8217;s just something about two writers coming together to talk about their work that&#8217;s interesting to me.  I love the nuances of peer conferring &#8212; learning what works well and what doesn&#8217;t.  I like to study really strong collaborations to find the little-known-secrets to a specific grade level of writers.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5237&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Owning Your Story.</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/owning-your-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with a friend and colleague of mine, Deb Gaby.  She was commenting about how often in life when we begin to think differently, this new awareness crops up in many different aspects of our life.  Interestingly enough, Deb and I are both thinking deeply about  collecting the stories which define our lives.
She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5226&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Characters Talk</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/redted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dialogue.  It&#8217;s something we wish students would use purposefully inside of a piece of writing.  Too often, when our students do write with dialogue, it sounds like this:

&#8220;Hi,&#8221; I said.

&#8220;Hi,&#8221; my sister said.

&#8220;What do you want to do today?&#8221; I said.

&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; she said.

&#8220;Let&#8217;s go to the park,&#8221; I said.

&#8220;Okay,&#8221; she said.

&#8220;Okay,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5217&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking to Me.</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/speaking-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These words are speaking to my soul tonight.  I&#8217;m planning to use them in a workshop I&#8217;m leading tomorrow.
Students such as these walk into your classrooms in every size, shape, and color.  You can&#8217;t know their histories because their only control is control of their secrets.  You are asked to create a safe enough place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5214&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Share Your Slices</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/share-your-slices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slice of Life Story Challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Election Day!  Whether you&#8217;re teaching today, attending professional development (I&#8217;m personally leading a session on conferring, so I&#8217;ll be posting my Slice later today.), or have the day off, please remember to get out and vote!
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		<title>Allowing Words to Hang in the Air</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/allowing-words-to-hang-in-the-air/</link>
		<comments>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/allowing-words-to-hang-in-the-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Basic Workshop Training there is always time for Adult Writing.  Yesterday, I shared one way to help get students writing is to read aloud a well-written text (a poem, picture book, or novel excerpt) and then allow the words &#8220;to hang in the air&#8221; while everyone silently picks up their pens and begins to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5209&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing Books with Students</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/publishing-books-with-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Monday I heard Kwame Alexander, who is a poet (He trained with Nikki Giovanni at Virgina Tech!), author, and founder of Book-in-a-Day, speak at the KSRA Conference in Hershey, PA.  My handwritten notes from his talk about engaging students with poetry are at the bottom of this post.
Alexander founded Book-in-a-Day, Inc., or BID,  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5184&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Historic Events, People, or Places</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/oatmanhigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania-based author Linda Oatman High led a session entitled &#8220;Writing to the Beat of a Different Drummer&#8221; at the KSRA Conference I attended this week.  (My handwritten notes from her session, which provided an array of ideas for getting students to write, are located at the bottom of this post in a Scribd Document.)
Oatman High [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5190&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I {Heart} Comments</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/i-heart-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, I use this blog to sort out ideas I&#8217;m wrestling with.  I must admit this puts me in a vulnerable place.  Such was the case with Monday&#8217;s posts.  Audience &#8212; authentic audience &#8212; has been on my mind a lot lately.
Sometimes I think we make things more complicated than they need to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5180&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOLSC Meets Picture Book Illustrators</title>
		<link>http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/alittleabouthowillustratorswork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
KSRA Authors Tea Mug &#38; Chocolate (er, what&#8217;s left of the chocolate)
Originally uploaded by teachergal

When I received the registration form for the KSRA Conference, I did something I don’t usually do.  I signed up for the Author Tea.  I figured I might meet some interesting people and have a nice afternoon snack.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twowritingteachers.wordpress.com&blog=1220974&post=5175&subd=twowritingteachers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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