Did you know TK is shorthand meaning, to come? Stacey taught me that while we were working on Day by Day. So this post is a post about what’s to come later (after work, after playing with the kids, after making dinner, after . . . you get the idea).
So later you will find:
- A Mentor Text Thursday post about a new favorite book of mine, Spork. I’ll be sharing how I’d use this book to help teach writers about setting.
- The results of the two giveaways. (So excited about using Random Number Generator!)
Until then, would you leave a comment sharing the current unit of study that is happening in your writing workshop? And if you are not a workshop teacher, would you share a unit of study you would like to know more about?
Have a happy day, everyone.
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My class of fifth graders are just completing a unit of study on Feature Articles. This is one of their favorite units since we publish on the computer. This encourages their creativity with importing graphic sources and playing with fonts/color to enhance their article. The drawback is getting enough time in a computer lab during district testing. UGH! The positive for the students is the feedback they get from their peers when they are displayed on our hallway writing gallery.
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I am just wrapping up my second personal narrative unit
with my 5th graders. Hopefully next week we will begin Lucy
Calkins’ Personal Essay. Does anyone have any examples of personal
essays that kids have written? Mid-way through the unit I’d like to
show kids an example that isn’t mine. Thanks!
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In between writing units our fourth graders have a 2 week choice writing period. They love it! I used your writing proposal from Day by Day and it really helped me to conference and provide support to students working in the same genres. In about a week we will begin realistic fiction. Some of the mini-lessons for this unit will be posted on our class blog at http://tasblogs.tas.edu.tw/wpmu/sandlerk/workshops-wall/.
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forgot to mention…I have started a classroom blog! you can read it at http://room410news.blogspot.com/
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We are currently deep into our Poetry unit! The kids are having a blast, have enjoyed the Oreo’s that you left for us, and are beginning to appreciate the world of poetry. I have read over some of their poems and am BLOWN AWAY by the emotion and character that is coming through.
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I’m trying to start a unit on expository writing but we’ve had so many snow days in the last couple of weeks I’m having a hard time getting started.
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In our third grade classroom we have been using mentor texts to pick out figurative language and exciting words and then trying to add those to our own writing. We’ve also been trying to create mental images with our writing using our senses. We spent a couple days just concentrating on making blog posts and comments so we could begin sharing our writing. To check out some of our craft visit us at: http://kidblog.org/MrsSurridgesclass/ and scroll down to the life lab posts. We would love comments if you think someone has added a particularly impressive description or mental image.
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It is fun to see what everyone is working on right now!
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In reading workshop we’ve just begun something new: a short story literature circle genre study.
In writing workshop we have also begun an experiment – writing profile, and attempting to translate the piece into digital storytelling.
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My third and fourth graders are just starting a fiction unit. They seem to throw themselves into whatever we’re working on, so I have high hopes for the stories they’re hatching!
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Writing, reading, eating, breathing nonfiction and dabbling in early research skills. Also writing a class book for Scholastic’s Kids Are Authors contest.
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For the past couple of weeks in 7th and 8th grade, we’ve been working on a biography genre study. We’ll be writing 2 short biographies over the course of the next few weeks: one on a family member and one research piece on a present day or historical figure (student selected). Right now we’re learning how to do the research and take notes on a subject. I’ve blogged on the unit at: http://mardiesmuse.blogspot.com/
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My second graders and I are exploring beginning research skills and expository writing.
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We’re currently in the middle of a fiction unit. (4th grade) The kids absolutely love it. I continually find that modeling and sharing the other student’s writing makes the difference!
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Were in the second week of our short fiction unit! I’ve been focusing on helping students to create believable characters that their reader can connect with.
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This week we just started our third quarter. On the third week of the quarter my students will be doing their state writing assessment or writing work sample (depending on their grade level), so I am using these two weeks for a quick writing to a prompt genre study. I actually love it as a time to celebrate all that they have learned as writers and the strategies that they can when they have to fly solo, completely independent from the assistance from their peers and from me.
I talked about my quick genre study last year: http://snapshotsofmrsv.blogspot.com/2010/04/state-testing-reflections-prompt.html
Stacey was one of the people to inspire me to teach writing to a prompt as a genre.
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We are working on a fantasy story with my fifth graders. They love reading fantasy books and are really engaged in writing fantasy stories as well, especially my boys!
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Just getting a fiction unit started with my fourth graders.
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