Two Writing Teachers Podcast

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MORE INFORMATION

• Check out Shawnda's blog post that inspired today's bonus episode:
  • Chants for Writing: Support Routines, Conventions, and Craft
• Read more posts about working with multilingual learners and on translanguaging on Two Writing Teachers. 
• In addition, here are some other #TWTBlog posts that will provide you with more information about things Shawnda mentioned.
  • Developing Storytellers
  • Students Can Draw at Every Stage of the Writing Process (At All Ages)
  • Use Oral Rehearsal to Aid Note-Taking

ABOUT SHAWNDA

Shawnda Fukano is a primary literacy coach at Mount View Elementary, a dual-language school in the Highline School District in Seattle, Washington. She supports teachers and students in both English and Spanish classrooms as they develop biliteracy. Shawnda has had a passion for educating multilingual learners since she began teaching in 2004. She spent many years as a classroom teacher for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade newcomers, and was then the Dual Language Coordinator when her school first transitioned to the dual-language program. She also taught English to adult refugees from Burma for several years.

Shawnda is a National Board Certified Teacher in English as a New Language and is an OCDE Project GLAD® Trainer. She lives in Seattle with her husband, son, and twin daughters and writes slices of her life as a mom and teacher at ShawndaStories or follow her on Twitter @ShawndaFukano.

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• Melanie Meehan: [email protected] 
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For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

If you're interested in reading more about conventions, some blog posts include:

• Ways to Teach Conventions
• Grammar and Conventions
• Using Inquiry to Lift Language Conventions

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For more about the teaching of writing, check out the blog! 

https://twowritingteachers.org 

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For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

Conferring is the heart of writing workshop, which is why we are talking about four types of writing conferences we adore having with students. In this episode, we discussed on-the-spot writing conferences, complement-only conferences, table conferences, and inquiry conferences. As usual, we tuck in some conferring tips as well!

MORE ABOUT CONFERRING
We have written a lot of content about conferring over at Two Writing Teachers so it's hard to pick just a few pieces to share in today's show notes. Here are ten must-read blog posts about conferring: 

1. Conferring: Writing Workshop Fundamentals
2. Don't Skimp on the Compliment
3. Get REALLY Good at Conferring
4. How to Name a Transferrable Teaching Point in a Writing Conference
5. Let's Talk About Methods for Conferring
6. Listening Closely
7. Table Conferences: An Important Coaching Move at the Start of the School Year
8. Three Ways to Make Your Conferring More Effective
9. Top Three Predictable, Beginning of Year Conferences
10. What To Do When a Writer Doesn't Say Much

ICYMI: Be sure to check out our previous podcast on record-keeping!

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• We are excited to share the Two Writing Teachers Podcast with you. If you've provided a rating or review on any of the listening platforms, then please fill out this form to be entered into a giveaway for a free professional book from Corwin.
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This episode was recorded in September 2022.

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For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

Maximize the power of your mid-workshop interruptions by having a precise location where students can easily find you.

To read more about mid-workshop interruptions, head over to our blog and read:

• The Mid-Workshop Interruption: An Opportunity for Instruction During the Workshop 
• Writing Workshop Fundamentals: Structure

For more about the teaching of writing, check out the blog! 

https://twowritingteachers.org 

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• Melanie Meehan: [email protected] 
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For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

To read more about the organization of materials in the workshop, check out some of our blog posts, including: 

• My Conferring Toolkit: Our Favorite Things Blog Series
• Writers Need Tools
• This is the Year I'm Going to Make Writing Toolkits
• Creating Classroom Environments: Paper Choices 

For more about the teaching of writing, check out the blog!
http://twowritingteachers.org

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For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

Some of our past blog posts that correspond to today's conversation are:

• The Importance of Charts in Classrooms
• Making the Most Out of Charts
• Personalizing charts to foster intention and independence

For more on the teaching of writing, out our blog at https://twowritingteachers.org.

This episode was recorded on August 21, 2022.

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• Melanie Meehan: [email protected] 
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For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

To read more about building writers' stamina, check out some of our blog posts including:

• Building Stamina in Primary Writers
• Developing Stamina
• Resources Teachers Can Share With Families: Increase Writing Volume and Stamina at Home
• Stamina in Our Youngest Writers

For more about the teaching of writing, check out the blog! 

https://twowritingteachers.org 

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Please subscribe to our podcast and leave us ratings/reviews on your favorite listening platform.

You may contact us directly if you want us to consult with your school district. 

• Melanie Meehan: [email protected] 
• Stacey Shubitz: [email protected]

Email us at [email protected] for affiliate or sponsorship opportunities.

For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

For more on record keeping, check out some of these posts from Two Writing Teachers:

• Record Keeping- Why and How: Assessment Strengthens Writers
• Conferring Toolkits: Record Keeping
• Record-Keeping Forms
• The Case for Record-Keeping
• This is the year I’m going to keep better records.
  
  

Melanie's posts about Google Forms are available through the following posts:

• Ideas for getting started with google forms
• Continuing to Think About Google Forms
  
  

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Melanie Meehan: https://twitter.com/MelanieMeehan1 

Stacey Shubitz: https://twitter.com/sshubitz 

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For more about the teaching of writing, check out the blog! 

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Send us Fan Mail

Please subscribe to our podcast and leave us ratings/reviews on your favorite listening platform.

You may contact us directly if you want us to consult with your school district. 

• Melanie Meehan: [email protected] 
• Stacey Shubitz: [email protected]

Email us at [email protected] for affiliate or sponsorship opportunities.

For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

To read more about building writers' agency, check out some of our blog posts including:

• Student Agency: Solving Predictable Problems Blog Series
• Top Three Beginning of Year Conferences: Our Favorite Things Blog Series
• Joy and Agency: An Origin Story
• Fostering Authorship, Identity, and Agency in the Early Childhood Classroom Through Storytelling

Subscribe to our podcast at https://twtpod.buzzsprout.com. 

For more about the teaching of writing, check out the blog! 

https://twowritingteachers.org 

Follow me on Twitter!

Amy Ellerman: https://twitter.com/sanderling12

Advertising Inquiries: Email us at [email protected]. 

Send us Fan Mail

Please subscribe to our podcast and leave us ratings/reviews on your favorite listening platform.

You may contact us directly if you want us to consult with your school district. 

• Melanie Meehan: [email protected] 
• Stacey Shubitz: [email protected]

Email us at [email protected] for affiliate or sponsorship opportunities.

For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.

For more on the importance of volume, check out some of these posts on the Two Writing Teachers blog:

• Pump Up the Volume
• Paper Choices: What’s up with that?
• All About the Paper.
  
  

Follow us on Twitter!

Amy Ellerman: https://twitter.com/sanderling12 

Melanie Meehan: https://twitter.com/MelanieMeehan1 

Stacey Shubitz: https://twitter.com/sshubitz 

Subscribe to our podcast at https://twtpod.buzzsprout.com. 

Advertising Inquiries: Email us at [email protected]. 

Send us Fan Mail

Please subscribe to our podcast and leave us ratings/reviews on your favorite listening platform.

You may contact us directly if you want us to consult with your school district. 

• Melanie Meehan: [email protected] 
• Stacey Shubitz: [email protected]

Email us at [email protected] for affiliate or sponsorship opportunities.

For more about teaching writing, head to the Two Writing Teachers blog.