Many blog posts and tweets are
buzzing with plans for the school year. My mind is swirling, I have piles of
work all over my dining table, trying to create a way to organize what I hope
to do this year. Maybe I’ll never be done, but I’m beginning!
There are numerous professional books
that help with ideas about getting started in the school year, and blogs are
lately filling up with ideas for starting reading workshop, writing workshop,
writers’ notebooks (see Two
Writing Teachers’ blog series this week! The first one is by Tara Smith, workshop routines).
I just enjoyed a NEW twitter chat
with Ruth Ayres (@ruth_ayres) and Christy Levine (@rushlevine) on Sunday
evening that will happen every first Sunday of the month at 8 eastern time,
hashtag #TandCWriters. This time Katherine Sokolowski (@Katsok) was the host
and questions were asked about the use of writers’ notebooks. How does one
start them, etc.?