Living Life Twice

Here are five of the most popular  Living Life Twice  posts for 2023. Thank you for your continuing support and interest in teaching writing and all it entails. Writer's Notebooks -Some forward Planning Is Required Ownership, integrity and engagement are all enhanced when the writer's notebook a young writer is holding, is one they have personally identified as meeting their individual needs as a writer. Young writers frequently share their preferences for particular notebooks when we are discussing this important matter. https://livinglifetwice-alwrite.blogspot.com/2023/11/writers-notebook-some-forward-planning.html Using Strategic Talk To Assist The Developing Writer Talk has a great contribution to make during pre-writing. It can contribute to the sparking of potential writing idea. Equally, it can also assist the writer to clarify the direction they wish to take with their writing. It can used to reflect and review writing pieces already under construction.  It is sai...

At the conclusion of each school year, I feel compelled to write, urging teachers to quarantine a little of their well deserved holidays break time for some writing.  As we rapidly approach the end of another challenging year, my message remains unerringly simple.  If you are a teacher who writes, it is easier  to present as a writer who teaches.  Will you be embracing the challenge of keeping your own writer’s notebooks in 2024? Well, that notebook will greatly benefit from some early feeding and summer always presents as a potential feast… I am aware of the level of exhaustion that exists in schools at year’s end.  The need to tie up a multitude of loose ends prior to school closing for the summer holidays remains.   The final days of school seem to take the longest time of all the many school weeks. School becomes the epicentre of fatigue for both students and staff. I am also aware that on summer’s horizon teachers will have free time to relax and regen...