Setting up the classroom environment: Two Writing Teachers
Ideas for launching the writers notebook with a section on reading: Three Teachers Talk
An international school teacher thinks about ways to build a reading identity
The same international teacher thinks about her room set up.
Moving Writers ideas for using mentor text as a way of introducing the students to each other and an idea for using the 6 word memoir as an opening day activity.
Conferences to launch the year: Amy Ellerman has great ideas for her favorite three types of conferences to launch the writing workshop.