Two Writing Teachers
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Two Writing Teachers is a meeting place of reflective writers.
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Blog: https://twowritingteachers.org/
Podcast: Anywhere you get your podcasts! https://twowritingteachers.org/podcast/
Building Strength and Coordination for Writing
When you think about the impact of strength and coordination on writing, it helps you realize that big movements lead to smaller movements. Therefore, paying attention to the development and progression of large motor skills can help develop writers.
When you think about the impact of strength and coordination on writing, it helps you realize that big movements lead to smaller movements. Therefore, paying attention to the development and progression of large motor skills can help develop writers.
Building Strength and Coordination for Writing
When you think about the impact of strength and coordination on writing, it helps you realize that big movements lead to smaller movements. Therefore, paying attention to the development and progression of large motor skills can help develop writers.
twowritingteachers.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Building Strength and Coordination for Writing
When you think about the impact of strength and coordination on writing, it helps you realize that big movements lead to smaller movements. Therefore, paying attention to the development and progression of large motor skills can help develop writers.
When you think about the impact of strength and coordination on writing, it helps you realize that big movements lead to smaller movements. Therefore, paying attention to the development and progression of large motor skills can help develop writers.
Slice of Life Tuesday
It's that time of the week again! Please join us for SOL Tuesday.
It's that time of the week again! Please join us for SOL Tuesday.
Slice of Life Tuesday
It's that time of the week again! Please join us for SOL Tuesday.
twowritingteachers.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Slice of Life Tuesday
It's that time of the week again! Please join us for SOL Tuesday.
It's that time of the week again! Please join us for SOL Tuesday.
Building a Language Playground: Higher-Level Vocabulary Skills
I'm always looking for ways to deepen students' understanding of vocabulary. Today, I’ll share a few strategies, tell how they help my writers, and list how much time I expect those activities to take in the classroom.
I'm always looking for ways to deepen students' understanding of vocabulary. Today, I’ll share a few strategies, tell how they help my writers, and list how much time I expect those activities to take in the classroom.
Building a Language Playground: Higher-Level Vocabulary Skills
I'm always looking for ways to deepen students' understanding of vocabulary. Today, I’ll share a few strategies, tell how they help my writers, and list how much time I expect those activities to take in the classroom.
twowritingteachers.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Building a Language Playground: Higher-Level Vocabulary Skills
I'm always looking for ways to deepen students' understanding of vocabulary. Today, I’ll share a few strategies, tell how they help my writers, and list how much time I expect those activities to take in the classroom.
I'm always looking for ways to deepen students' understanding of vocabulary. Today, I’ll share a few strategies, tell how they help my writers, and list how much time I expect those activities to take in the classroom.
Weaving Writing into Morning Meeting
Morning Meeting isn’t just a joyful way to start the day…it’s a perfect time for building both social and academic skills. Learn how small shifts, like intentional Morning Messages and shares, can give students meaningful opportunities to practice and…
Morning Meeting isn’t just a joyful way to start the day…it’s a perfect time for building both social and academic skills. Learn how small shifts, like intentional Morning Messages and shares, can give students meaningful opportunities to practice and…
Weaving Writing into Morning Meeting
Morning Meeting isn’t just a joyful way to start the day…it’s a perfect time for building both social and academic skills. Learn how small shifts, like intentional Morning Messages and shares, can give students meaningful opportunities to practice and strengthen their writing.
twowritingteachers.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Weaving Writing into Morning Meeting
Morning Meeting isn’t just a joyful way to start the day…it’s a perfect time for building both social and academic skills. Learn how small shifts, like intentional Morning Messages and shares, can give students meaningful opportunities to practice and…
Morning Meeting isn’t just a joyful way to start the day…it’s a perfect time for building both social and academic skills. Learn how small shifts, like intentional Morning Messages and shares, can give students meaningful opportunities to practice and…
It’s Slice of Life Tuesday!
Join fellow Slicers at NCTE by filling out the form for a meetup in Denver. Even if you're not attending, share your slice of life story link by leaving a comment.
Join fellow Slicers at NCTE by filling out the form for a meetup in Denver. Even if you're not attending, share your slice of life story link by leaving a comment.
It’s Slice of Life Tuesday!
Join fellow Slicers at NCTE by filling out the form for a meetup in Denver. Even if you're not attending, share your slice of life story link by leaving a comment.
twowritingteachers.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
It’s Slice of Life Tuesday!
Join fellow Slicers at NCTE by filling out the form for a meetup in Denver. Even if you're not attending, share your slice of life story link by leaving a comment.
Join fellow Slicers at NCTE by filling out the form for a meetup in Denver. Even if you're not attending, share your slice of life story link by leaving a comment.
Morphology in Minutes: Ready-to-Go Tip
Morphology doesn’t require lengthy lessons. A few intentional minutes can transform how students see and use words. These easy, ready-to-use ideas and linked activites will help you bring morphology to life in any classroom K-8.
Morphology doesn’t require lengthy lessons. A few intentional minutes can transform how students see and use words. These easy, ready-to-use ideas and linked activites will help you bring morphology to life in any classroom K-8.
Morphology in Minutes: Ready-to-Go Tip
Morphology doesn’t require lengthy lessons. A few intentional minutes can transform how students see and use words. These easy, ready-to-use ideas and linked activites will help you bring morphology to life in any classroom K-8.
twowritingteachers.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Morphology in Minutes: Ready-to-Go Tip
Morphology doesn’t require lengthy lessons. A few intentional minutes can transform how students see and use words. These easy, ready-to-use ideas and linked activites will help you bring morphology to life in any classroom K-8.
Morphology doesn’t require lengthy lessons. A few intentional minutes can transform how students see and use words. These easy, ready-to-use ideas and linked activites will help you bring morphology to life in any classroom K-8.
You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers
Lighten your mental load by placing more agency in your writers’ hands. Here are simple ways to empower your writers and make your life easier.
Lighten your mental load by placing more agency in your writers’ hands. Here are simple ways to empower your writers and make your life easier.
You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers
Lighten your mental load by placing more agency in your writers’ hands. Here are simple ways to empower your writers and make your life easier.
twowritingteachers.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers
Lighten your mental load by placing more agency in your writers’ hands. Here are simple ways to empower your writers and make your life easier.
Lighten your mental load by placing more agency in your writers’ hands. Here are simple ways to empower your writers and make your life easier.
Making the Case for Paper Charts (Plus Some Tips)
Charts have become less common in the classroom as slides become more prevalent. But paper charts serve specific purposes that slides can't serve. Here’s why we all should be making more charts.
Charts have become less common in the classroom as slides become more prevalent. But paper charts serve specific purposes that slides can't serve. Here’s why we all should be making more charts.
Making the Case for Paper Charts (Plus Some Tips)
Charts have become less common in the classroom as slides become more prevalent. But paper charts serve specific purposes that slides can't serve. Here’s why we all should be making more charts.
twowritingteachers.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Making the Case for Paper Charts (Plus Some Tips)
Charts have become less common in the classroom as slides become more prevalent. But paper charts serve specific purposes that slides can't serve. Here’s why we all should be making more charts.
Charts have become less common in the classroom as slides become more prevalent. But paper charts serve specific purposes that slides can't serve. Here’s why we all should be making more charts.
It’s time for Slice of Life Tuesday!
Please join our writing community and share your slice of life story today!
Please join our writing community and share your slice of life story today!
It’s time for Slice of Life Tuesday!
Please join our writing community and share your slice of life story today!
twowritingteachers.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It’s time for Slice of Life Tuesday!
Please join our writing community and share your slice of life story today!
Please join our writing community and share your slice of life story today!
Working in a Reggio-Emilia-inspired school has allowed me to see writing workshop practices through new lenses, bringing greater depth to the art of teaching writing, to how students and teachers collaborate, and to the power of documenting student learning.
When Reggio Meets Writing Workshop
Working in a Reggio-Emilia-inspired school has allowed me to see writing workshop practices through new lenses, bringing greater depth to the art of teaching writing, to how students and teachers collaborate, and to the power of documenting student learning.
twowritingteachers.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Working in a Reggio-Emilia-inspired school has allowed me to see writing workshop practices through new lenses, bringing greater depth to the art of teaching writing, to how students and teachers collaborate, and to the power of documenting student learning.
What Should Live on Your Classroom Walls?
Discover how purposeful, student-centered signage transforms learning environments and get practical tips for making every sign count.
Discover how purposeful, student-centered signage transforms learning environments and get practical tips for making every sign count.
What Should Live on Your Classroom Walls?
Discover how purposeful, student-centered signage transforms learning environments and get practical tips for making every sign count.
twowritingteachers.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
What Should Live on Your Classroom Walls?
Discover how purposeful, student-centered signage transforms learning environments and get practical tips for making every sign count.
Discover how purposeful, student-centered signage transforms learning environments and get practical tips for making every sign count.
Join Us for Slice of Life Tuesday
Please join us today in sharing a slice of life story!
Please join us today in sharing a slice of life story!
Join Us for Slice of Life Tuesday
Please join us today in sharing a slice of life story!
twowritingteachers.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Join Us for Slice of Life Tuesday
Please join us today in sharing a slice of life story!
Please join us today in sharing a slice of life story!
A Call to Collaborate
The co-authors have been brainstorming ways to strengthen the collaboration and connections between each other and also between readers. Our ultimate goal is to re-kindle and energize the writing lives of teachers and students.
The co-authors have been brainstorming ways to strengthen the collaboration and connections between each other and also between readers. Our ultimate goal is to re-kindle and energize the writing lives of teachers and students.
A Call to Collaborate
The co-authors have been brainstorming ways to strengthen the collaboration and connections between each other and also between readers. Our ultimate goal is to re-kindle and energize the writing lives of teachers and students.
twowritingteachers.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A Call to Collaborate
The co-authors have been brainstorming ways to strengthen the collaboration and connections between each other and also between readers. Our ultimate goal is to re-kindle and energize the writing lives of teachers and students.
The co-authors have been brainstorming ways to strengthen the collaboration and connections between each other and also between readers. Our ultimate goal is to re-kindle and energize the writing lives of teachers and students.
“Mat Man”: Reflective Practice
What is the value in "teaching" children how to draw a person, even before they may start to draw figures on their own?
What is the value in "teaching" children how to draw a person, even before they may start to draw figures on their own?
“Mat Man”: Reflective Practice
What is the value in "teaching" children how to draw a person, even before they may start to draw figures on their own?
twowritingteachers.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“Mat Man”: Reflective Practice
What is the value in "teaching" children how to draw a person, even before they may start to draw figures on their own?
What is the value in "teaching" children how to draw a person, even before they may start to draw figures on their own?
Looking for ways to maximize your writing minutes? Tight transitions, built on a foundation of smooth routines, help pave the way to more productive writing time.
Timely Tricks for Tight Transitions
Looking for ways to maximize your writing minutes? Tight transitions, built on a foundation of smooth routines, help pave the way to more productive writing time.
twowritingteachers.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Looking for ways to maximize your writing minutes? Tight transitions, built on a foundation of smooth routines, help pave the way to more productive writing time.
Today's Slice of Life Tuesday will push you to think about beginnings and endings, inspired by an October quote from Jacqueline Woodson.
It’s time for Slice of Life Tuesday!
Today's Slice of Life Tuesday will push you to think about beginnings and endings, inspired by an OCtober quote from Jacqueline Woodson.
twowritingteachers.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Today's Slice of Life Tuesday will push you to think about beginnings and endings, inspired by an October quote from Jacqueline Woodson.
A Trajectory to Duplicate: These Poems Were VERY Good Things
As part of their writing unit launch and identity unit. I worked on poems with fourth-grade students that were inspired by Derrick Barnes’ I’m Every Good Thing. How much fun did I have!
As part of their writing unit launch and identity unit. I worked on poems with fourth-grade students that were inspired by Derrick Barnes’ I’m Every Good Thing. How much fun did I have!
A Trajectory to Duplicate: These Poems Were VERY Good Things
As part of their writing unit launch and identity unit. I worked on poems with fourth-grade students that were inspired by Derrick Barnes’ I’m Every Good Thing. How much fun did I have!
twowritingteachers.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A Trajectory to Duplicate: These Poems Were VERY Good Things
As part of their writing unit launch and identity unit. I worked on poems with fourth-grade students that were inspired by Derrick Barnes’ I’m Every Good Thing. How much fun did I have!
As part of their writing unit launch and identity unit. I worked on poems with fourth-grade students that were inspired by Derrick Barnes’ I’m Every Good Thing. How much fun did I have!
Taking conferring notes shouldn't feel harder than the conference itself, but for me, it often does. Finding a system that lets you focus more on students and less on note-taking makes all the difference.
The Conferring Notes System That Finally Works for Me: Google Forms
Taking conferring notes shouldn't feel harder than the conference itself, but for me, it often does. Finding a system that lets you focus more on students and less on note-taking makes all the difference.
twowritingteachers.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Taking conferring notes shouldn't feel harder than the conference itself, but for me, it often does. Finding a system that lets you focus more on students and less on note-taking makes all the difference.
It’s Tuesday: Time for Slice of Life!
Please join us today in capturing a slice of life! Write. Share. Give.
Please join us today in capturing a slice of life! Write. Share. Give.
It’s Tuesday: Time for Slice of Life!
Please join us today in capturing a slice of life! Write. Share. Give.
twowritingteachers.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It’s Tuesday: Time for Slice of Life!
Please join us today in capturing a slice of life! Write. Share. Give.
Please join us today in capturing a slice of life! Write. Share. Give.
Finding Wider Audiences for Student Work
Children pursue their passions in many ways, like music or art lessons, clubs, and sports. It's natural for kids to want that for their writing. Here's a resource for students who want their voices heard by a wider audience.
Children pursue their passions in many ways, like music or art lessons, clubs, and sports. It's natural for kids to want that for their writing. Here's a resource for students who want their voices heard by a wider audience.
Finding Wider Audiences for Student Work
Children pursue their passions in many ways, like music or art lessons, clubs, and sports. It's natural for kids to want that for their writing. Here's a resource for students who want their voices heard by a wider audience.
twowritingteachers.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Finding Wider Audiences for Student Work
Children pursue their passions in many ways, like music or art lessons, clubs, and sports. It's natural for kids to want that for their writing. Here's a resource for students who want their voices heard by a wider audience.
Children pursue their passions in many ways, like music or art lessons, clubs, and sports. It's natural for kids to want that for their writing. Here's a resource for students who want their voices heard by a wider audience.
Reimagining Immersion
Give students a voice from day one. Starting a unit with shared writing helps students see the process, practice the craft, and approach their own writing with clarity and confidence.
Give students a voice from day one. Starting a unit with shared writing helps students see the process, practice the craft, and approach their own writing with clarity and confidence.
Reimagining Immersion
Give students a voice from day one. Starting a unit with shared writing helps students see the process, practice the craft, and approach their own writing with clarity and confidence.
twowritingteachers.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reimagining Immersion
Give students a voice from day one. Starting a unit with shared writing helps students see the process, practice the craft, and approach their own writing with clarity and confidence.
Give students a voice from day one. Starting a unit with shared writing helps students see the process, practice the craft, and approach their own writing with clarity and confidence.
It's Tuesday! Time to write, share, give!
It’s Tuesday: Join Us for a Slice of Life!
It's Tuesday! Time to write, share, give!
twowritingteachers.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's Tuesday! Time to write, share, give!
The last five minutes of writing workshop can feel easy to skip. But when the teaching share is structured through self-assessment, communication, and reflection, it can change everything. Students become more fluent in speaking about their process. How do you usually end your writing sessions?
Purposeful Teaching Shares, Lasting Impact
The teaching share may take only a few minutes, but its impact is lasting. When we close writing workshops with self-assessment, communication, and reflection, we show students that writing is never done—it’s a cycle of noticing, trying, refining, and reflecting.
twowritingteachers.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The last five minutes of writing workshop can feel easy to skip. But when the teaching share is structured through self-assessment, communication, and reflection, it can change everything. Students become more fluent in speaking about their process. How do you usually end your writing sessions?
Hands in the Air: How Gestures Support Writing Instruction
Gesturing serves as a powerful tool connecting brain and body, while reducing the cognitive load during the writing process.
Gesturing serves as a powerful tool connecting brain and body, while reducing the cognitive load during the writing process.
Hands in the Air: How Gestures Support Writing Instruction
Gesturing serves as a powerful tool connecting brain and body, while reducing the cognitive load during the writing process.
twowritingteachers.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Hands in the Air: How Gestures Support Writing Instruction
Gesturing serves as a powerful tool connecting brain and body, while reducing the cognitive load during the writing process.
Gesturing serves as a powerful tool connecting brain and body, while reducing the cognitive load during the writing process.
It's Tuesday! Time to write, share, give!
It’s Tuesday: Join Us for a Slice of Life!
It's Tuesday! Time to write, share, give!
twowritingteachers.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's Tuesday! Time to write, share, give!