Welcome to the Craft & Draft podcast with Jacob Chastain and Pam Ochoa! We love talking about our craft! We believe that the Reading and Writing Workshop grows our students as thinkers, readers, and writers. We face the daily challenges of the classroom and our discussions help us, so we want to share them with […]
Welcome back to Craft and Draft podcast with Jacob Chastain and Pam Ochoa. Last week they shared how they used the CRAFTBOOK. As promised, this week they sit down and discuss the details of the DRAFTBOOK. The DRAFTBOOK empowers our students to become writers. We share how the students utilize it during their writing process. […]
Welcome back everyone, to the Craft & Draft Podcast! After a nice full list of episodes detailing Pam and Jacob’s philosophy, background, and focus in their classrooms, they figured it was about time to sit down and give some solid details on what their Craftbooks and Draftbooks are. Today we are talking CRAFTBOOKS, and next […]
Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. In this episode, Jacob and Pam received a question about Writing and Reading Workshop. This teacher just like so many other teachers is required […]
Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. In this episode, Jacob and Pam share books from Donald Graves to the present. We share books that you may want to add to […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Craft & Draft podcast where we talk reading — writing workshop every single FRIDAY of the week! In this episode, we take on the task of unsticking the stuck writer. We know it happens. You know it happens. Writers get stuck. They have choice and freedom to tackle […]
Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. Jacob and Pam begin with a conversation about the week. Pam shares how she uses the power of words to excite her students about […]
Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss when you know your reading workshop is in the zone. Pam touches on when teachers model reading […]
Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss the impact of the writing workshop on the culture of the classroom as well as the culture […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Craft & Draft! Last week, Pam and Jacob discussed how to spice up a stale classroom workshop. They pointed out that all workshops stall at times, and that’s ok. They also discussed how trusting the process, trying new model texts, and changing how students publish could lead to exciting […]