Two Writing Teachers Podcast
Since 2007, Two Writing Teachers has been a meeting place for a world of reflective writers. After over 15 years of blogging, we’ve decided to create a podcast that will serve as a companion to our blog. On the podcast, we’re excited to talk about ways to create, lead, and sustain joyful and productive writing workshops. Let’s work together, inspiring and empowering students to be competent, brave, and confident writers.
Episodes
Sentence construction can be tricky for many students. In this episode, Melanie shares a few strategies that might help students begin to internalize ways to construct sentences, moving from simple sentences to compound and complex sentences.
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Equitably distributing your time among your students matters since every child should receive 1:1 writing instruction. However, it’s challenging to keep writing conferences to five to seven minutes in length. In today’s Tip for Tomorrow, you’ll hear two ideas that require minimum preparation. Both will help you trim down the time you spend with each student so that you can meet with more students during independent writing time.
This podcast is the second of two Tips for Tomorrow about test prep. You can listen to the first one here.
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Teaching grammar doesn’t have to be tedious or painful. In today’s episode, we dive deep into ways to make grammar instruction more meaningful, sticky, and joyful for you and your students.
Browse Two Writing Teachers for in-depth blog posts about grammar, editing, and conventions.
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Paper can be used as an accommodation, a scaffold, and as a tool for innovation in writing workshops.
Check out these Two Writing Teachers blog posts for more information about the topics we discussed in today’s episode:
Test prep can be fun! Here are a couple of ways to use media and bring some joy into writing as you prepare students for summative assessments.
The Two Writing Teachers blog post mentioned in this episode is:
Some Narrative Writing Fun
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In this Conversations with a Colleague episode, Pam Koutrakos joins Melanie to talk about interactive writing and its power to grow writers.
Here are several Two Writing Teachers blog posts and past podcast episodes that deal with the topics discussed in this episode:
Just as your classroom library has books that kids can grow into, we can give students paper choices with the knowledge that they’re working to outgrow the paper they’re using. In today's Tip for Tomorrow, find out how paper can be used as an accommodation for students in writing workshop.
Check out these Two Writing Teachers blog posts for more information about the topics we discussed in today’s episode:
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We have a new feature, Conversations with a Colleague, to share today! In this episode, Leah Koch, who is one of our newest Two Writing Teachers co-authors, joins Stacey to talk about student-led small groups, as well as goal setting with primary writers.
Here are several Two Writing Teachers blog posts and past podcast episodes that deal with the topics discussed in this episode:
The 16th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge, or SOLSC, will begin on Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 at Two Writing Teachers. Participants, who we call Slicers, chronicle moments by living a wide-awake life for 31 days in March. They publish their writing on their own blog, share a link to their story daily over at Two Writing Teachers, and then provide at least three other Slicers with comments on their blogs.
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In this Tip for Tomorrow, you'll learn how to help students create and use a personal editing checklist that will help them fix up their writing in ways that meet them where they are as writers.
For more on personal editing checklists and the editing minute, check out these posts on Two Writing Teachers:
Happy New Year!
Students may have forgotten some of the routines and procedures used in the classroom. Taking the first few days to reteach routines after a school vacation benefits everyone so that writing workshop runs smoothly again.
Book: Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works
Pod Episode: Plan Boxes will Inspire You: Tip for Tomorrow
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Are you tired of thumbs-up/thumbs-down as a self-assessment strategy? Here's a suggestion for a self-assessment system you can teach students so you can get a more nuanced view of their understanding.
For more on self-assessment, check out the following posts on Two Writing Teachers:
Conventions are one of the hardest things to teach kids to do well in an exciting and authentic way. We have some ideas for teaching kids how to write with conventions without resorting to worksheets.
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Do your students write with pens or pencils in your writing workshop? While some people wouldn't consider handing a pen to an elementary student, using them in the writing workshop has many benefits. You can find out more by listening to this Tip for Tomorrow and by reading what some of the TWT co-authors have written about the benefits of having students write with pens.
You can grow your students’ agency in writing workshop by thinking deeply about the curriculum, growing your instruction, and nudging students toward self-assessment.
Here are several Two Writing Teachers blog posts that deal with some of the topics discussed in this episode:
If you're interested in reading more about writing as a gift, please read Heather's post about it, Narrative Writing Makes a Beautiful Gift.
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