During today's Writing Circle Luncheon, I had two of my students share a piece of writing they did this week that they were pleased with and on which they wanted feedback. I wanted to see how they were with providing each other feedback (e.g., peer conferring) by paying each other a compliment and by giving… Continue reading Feedback in Writing Circle
Category: action research
More About Mentor Texts
I've blogged about mentor texts a great deal since we started Two Writing Teachers in 2007. I learned a lot about the way students use mentor texts after spending a year researching this when I was in grad school at Teachers College. As a result, I recently had an article, entitled "Using Mentor Texts to… Continue reading More About Mentor Texts
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Action Research Update
Part of the reason I took a blogging break last week was because I was in San Diego presenting with some of my former classmates and instructors at the AERA Conference. We presented the action research projects we did while we were at Teachers College before an audience of professors. It was exciting to think… Continue reading Action Research Update
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Writerly Things That Happened at Lunchtime
Six of my students opted to stay up with me during lunch today. Two were under the weather and wanted to chill with me; two wanted to finish their reminder posters; the final two wanted to peruse New Moon for Girls to get ideas about writing their own article. Two of the five kids from… Continue reading Writerly Things That Happened at Lunchtime
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Writing Reminders
Poster Originally uploaded by teachergal I had my Writing Circle up for lunch on Tuesday. I asked them to count the number of entries they'd written in the past six weeks. Let's just say that there's been an improvement, but it's nowhere near the volume I expected. Needless to say, I'm a bit frustrated since… Continue reading Writing Reminders
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Gearing-Up for Writing Circle
We had a classroom situation we had to take care of last Tuesday at lunchtime. Therefore, my weekly Writing Circle didn't meet. (I was happy they were disappointed since I felt disappointed too.) Hence, I'm leaving each student a reminder notice about Tuesday's upcoming Writing Circle tomorrow. I'm hoping we have a lot to celebrate… Continue reading Gearing-Up for Writing Circle
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Progress in the Writing Circle
Remember that group of kids I wrote about who I decided to take upstairs for weekly lunches on Tuesdays? Well, the five of us didn't meet last week because the entire class watched the Inauguration instead. Hence, we met, after being "away from each other" for two weeks. (They're in my class, but we haven't… Continue reading Progress in the Writing Circle
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Action Research Questions Reviewed
I reviewed all of the answers my focal children gave me to the questions I asked regarding their writing process. I entered it into a spreadsheet. I'm sharing it in this forum for several reasons: 1. I want to make sure I'm fulfilling the mission statement Ruth and I created. To reflect on our teaching… Continue reading Action Research Questions Reviewed
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Interviewing My Kids
I administered writing interviews to five of my focal children on Tuesday. One of them actually wrote about it. This was what one of them wrote as a notebook entry that night (N.B.: I'm not fixing spelling, grammar, etc.): Today at recess time I had a interview it was very interesting because my teacher ask… Continue reading Interviewing My Kids
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The Invitation
I feel like someone handing out bids during Rush, which is not a great feeling. However, this is the invite I'm extending to five students for a lunchtime writing group, which will start this Tuesday. Keep your fingers crossed that it's well-received by all! Click on the image to enlarge it (and you'll subsequently be… Continue reading The Invitation
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Writing Behaviors & the Process
With the action research project I'm about to embark on, I'm trying to get a better hold on the writing behaviors my students, who do not write regularly, possess. I reached for M. Colleen Cruz's New Book from the Workshop Help Desk Series entitled A Quick Guide to Reaching Struggling Writers. This book is chock-full… Continue reading Writing Behaviors & the Process
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Classroom Research
I think I finally formulated the question I am going to use to guide the teacher-research I'm going to do in the months to come. It is: What kinds of things can I do to nurture the writing habits for the students in my class who do not write regularly? Out of all of the… Continue reading Classroom Research
