It’s no secret that I love writing workshop. It’s always been my favorite subject to teach (although I adore reading workshop too). There’s just something about watching my students turn into published authors that gives me goosebumps. I love to see where their imaginations take them as their stories unfold. I start each year with…
Today is the fifth and final day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting My Teacher’s Secret Life by Stephen Krensky. I always save this innovation for the end of our series because it provides the least scaffolding. Like many of our kiddos, the…
Today is the fourth day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups by David Wisniewski. In case you aren’t familiar with this book, it’s written from a kid’s point of view and has interesting graphics that make the book…
Today is the third day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting Never Take a Shark to the Dentist: (and Other Things Not to Do) by Judi Barrett, The Book of Bad Ideas by Laura Huliska Beith, and Greatest Homework Excuse Book Ever written…
Today is the second day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. This book is written by the same author as Goodnight Moon, and it’s another simple story. Familiar items (like apples or spoons) are highlighted in…
Today is the first day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting Fortunately by Remy Charlip. This is a great book to use for innovations because its pattern is very easy to follow. It’s written in see-saw format, alternating pages of good and bad…
Did you guess what yesterday’s sneak preview video was about? INNOVATIONS! I blogged about using innovations during writing workshop at the end of March and promised to return to follow up with some free writing ideas soon. After gathering my innovation files from school, I’ve decided to make a series of five innovation posts to…
Writing workshop is one of my favorite times of the day. I wanted to share one of my favorite writing workshop ideas with you… innovations! Innovations are great ways to jump-start student writing because students take familiar books and rewrite them with their own twist. I have several books that I use for innovations each…