Even though the folks who commented on it said it was okay the way it was, I wasn't happy with the rubric/checklist I created for my students to use for the personal narrative unit of study we have coming up. Therefore, I spent about 90 minutes tinkering with it tonight and came up with this.… Continue reading Updated Rubric and Checklist for Personal Narratives
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Checklist and Rubric Originally uploaded by teachergal I met with my grade-level colleagues today who, as always, push my thinking. Kate suggested creating a more kid-friendly rubric for the students to use on their first graded assignment of the school year. Hence, we worked together to create this assessment rubric and checklist of sorts. It's… Continue reading Feedback Request
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Demonstration in Minilessons: my personal narrative
When I attended T.C., I took "The Teaching of Writing" with Lucy Calkins, who truly taught me how to write better (not to mention how to be a better teacher of writing!). We wrote personal narratives for her class in which we went through many drafts and had to keep a log of our process.… Continue reading Demonstration in Minilessons: my personal narrative
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Take a new teacher by the hand and PAY IT FORWARD!
Pay it forward! It wasn't just a movie and it's not just an expression in my world. Those three little words are ones I try to live by at work, on the open road, and in my personal life. If someone does something nice for me, then I thank them, but I ALSO try to… Continue reading Take a new teacher by the hand and PAY IT FORWARD!
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One notebook or many?
Last week I blogged about a Recipe for Conferring Success. I've done some more thinking about it in recent days and am left pondering the following questions for myself as a teacher of writing: 1. One notebook or many? a. How many notebooks should teachers of writing keep to use in conferences and strategy lessons… Continue reading One notebook or many?
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Strategy: Use photos to tell a story
I often have my students bring in photographs of them at special times in their lives in order to help them spark their memory (and write a small moment story.) I discourage them from bringing in posed family portraits since, unless you got into a fist-fight with your little sister before the snapshot at Sears,… Continue reading Strategy: Use photos to tell a story
