Topic: Twitter Chat

Most reading workshop experts suggest that students spend no more than 10% of their reading time writing about reading. During the other 90% of reading time, students should be reading, engrossed in books they can read with a high level of accuracy in order to achieve the kind of reading volume that leads to maximum growth.

At this week’s TCRWP Twitter chat, Lizzie Petkanics and Kristi Guinness will lead a discussion on the management, functionality and benefits of helping your readers to build a richer sticky note practice.

As you start preparing to launch a new school year, join author Sue O’Connell and thousands of educators for a slow chat about important questions in elementary math teaching.

Ways to Study the Teaching of Writing with Your Colleagues: PD Ideas for Inside & Outside the Classroom K-8

A study written up by the Association for Psychological Science on factors that affect learning. Which traits help students to do well in school?

Math in Practice lead author Sue O'Connell hosted aTwitter chat in order to open up the discussion on math homework. Follow along here.

Building a strong workshop practice is similar to building a house. Doing it successfully takes the right tools.

Teachers of middle school reading have their own, unique set of challenges. Some of these hopes for middle school readers might resonate with you:

This week's Twitter TCRWP conversation is led by Brianna Parlitsis about studying reading process and development.

Studying and Thinking about Powerful Whole Group Instruction: Minilessons, Shared Reading, & Read Aloud K-3

Unpacking the Middle School Units of Study: Big Pillars and Hidden Gems

Teaching Empathy: Using Read Aloud and Text Sets to Think and Talk about Social Justice K-5

Refreshing Your Kids' Reading and Writing Lives in the New Year

Supporting Convention Work in the Units of Study: Punctuation and Spelling

The Essentials of Teaching the Writing Units of Study in Middle School

Making Our Whole Class Teaching Powerful: A Close-up Look at Minilessons in Reading

Lessons We Learned from the TC Classroom Library Project: Get the Right Books into the Hands of Kids

Powerful Small Group Work in Reading Units of Study