Tips, Titles and Tools for Teachers
Resources for Writing Workshop
On September 22, there will be more than thirty authors at Nerdy Night with Authors in Freeport. I've attended this event for the last two years and it's amazing! You can bring your family with you, too! My kids love the chance to buy new books and meet some of our favorite authors. I hope to see some of you there!
In this week's newsletter, I have lots of mentor texts, professional books and new blog posts for writing workshop to share with you. Don't forget about International Dot Day on September 15!
Happy Reading!
Shelly
September 15 is International Dot Day!
Don't forget to celebrate International Dot Day! There are lots of resources and ideas available at http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/get-inspired/making-a-mark.
A Moment In Time
Amelia's Notebook
Marshfield Dreams
Squiggly Story
How This Book Was Made
Ralph Tells A Story
My copy of this book is arriving on Tuesday. I can't wait to share it with you, as it sounds like the perfect read aloud for all classrooms.
Launching Your Writing Workshop
Enjoy this list of new blog posts from Two Writing Teachers related to launching your writing workshop! For more posts, visit https://twowritingteachers.org!
Overall Structure of Writing Workshop
Mentor Texts in the Teaching of Writing
(Don't miss the list of other blog posts about mentor texts at the end of the this post!)
Great Ideas for Writing Workshop
Protecting Student Writing Time
We know that students should spend at least half of our workshop time actually writing, but preserving this time is a common struggle (especially with the length of our lessons!). This blog post has a great list of tips to help protect student writing time!
Teaching students to self-monitor is such a critical part of writing workshop. This blog post has a few ideas for fostering independence including co-creating a chart with workshop expectations and responsibilities with your students (see sample).
If We Build It, They Will Come: Tales From inside the Sharing Circle
The share portion of the lesson is the easiest part to skip when we want to make sure that students have time to write or we want to get in just a bit more teaching. Lori Van Hoesen shares a few tips on the importance of protecting our sharing circle in this blog post.
The Writing Strategies Book
Brian Kissell Book
Heart Maps
Shelly Moody
Atwood Primary School
Williams Elementary School
Email: smoody@rsu18.org
Twitter: @shelmoody