Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. 

In this episode, Pam shares how her students respond to their self-selected reading.  She offers several ideas to help students to write about their reading.  Jacob shares how the Craft and Draft Notebook System works well with the reading workshop, so readers are encouraged to respond to their reading. 

Jacob discusses how he uses sentence starters to help his students to begin their writing when they are stuck.  They share how they use sentence starters as another strategy that helps their students to respond to their reading. 

Pam uses trigger words. She dives into the details of how she uses this strategy to prompt thinking and writing. Jacob shares some news!

Join Jacob and Pam as they answer questions from their patrons, share ideas from their classrooms. Find out what news Jacob has about his new book!!!  

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