Cookies? Check! Chips? Check! Juice Boxes Check! Comment Sheet! Check! I've often been asked "What do the other students and guests do at your celebrations?" Well, I hold them accountable for commenting on my students' work. Tomorrow I'm having my former fourth graders come to our research-based essay Publishing Celebration. Here's a look at the… Continue reading The Final Publishing Celebration of the School Year
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Pre-Publishing Checklist for Memoirs
I created a checklist for my students to use before they publish their memoir. It reflects the Qualities of Good Writing I blogged about recently.
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Some Executives Have Some Mail Coming to Their Offices Now!
Dropping a Stamped Persuasive Letter Into the Outgoing Mail Basket IS a Form of Publishing! Originally uploaded by teachergal Eleven of my kids showed up to school on this very icy Monday. 10:11 of them completed their persuasive letters when they had off on the snow day. (WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Therefore, all of them were able to… Continue reading Some Executives Have Some Mail Coming to Their Offices Now!
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Paper: A Resource
I couldn't locate the dark lines my students used to use underneath white paper when they started publishing their persuasive letters today. Therefore, I did a Google Search to find some. I didn't get exactly what I wanted, but I came pretty close when I went to PrintablePaper.net. This site is an excellent resource for… Continue reading Paper: A Resource
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Basic Comment Sheet
Need a basic comment sheet for your students' next Publishing Celebration? Just make a three-column table in Word like this:
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Religion & Publishing Celebrations
Lisa posted a question that really got me thinking about something I've never faced in my classroom: parents whose religion does not allow their child to partake in celebrations of any kind. While I've had students who do not celebrate birthdays or Halloween, I've never had a parent pull a student from a publishing party.… Continue reading Religion & Publishing Celebrations
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“Time Line” for On-Demand Assessments
I mapped out the way my students could go through the Quick Publish Process today. (They have today and tomorrow to quickly publish a personal narrative before we begin our next unit of study, personal essay, on Monday.) Here's what the "time line" of the writing process looked like:
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Publishing Personal Narratives
Student Reflection Sheet for Personal Narratives Originally uploaded by teachergal I updated the Personal Narrative Page on the Two Writing Teachers Website to include a student reflection sheet and an in-depth comment sheet that my students will be putting in their personal narrative portfolios when they get ready for this Tuesday's Publishing Party. I hope… Continue reading Publishing Personal Narratives
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Wow!
Check out this Providence Journal article about a student who wrote a persuasive letter to Lowe's and was granted a response bigger than he ever imagined. Bernardo Garcia wanted mulch for their outside play area, so he wrote a persuasive letter to the executive vice president of store operations for Lowe's, Michael K. Brown. Brown, upon returning… Continue reading Wow!
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Hard Work Should Be Celebrated
Katherine Bomer talked about celebrations this past summer at the TCRWP July Writing Institute. As I was planning my News & Announcements Charts for the upcoming week today, I found myself wanting to write about writing on four out of five of them. You see, I want my students to realize that their hard work… Continue reading Hard Work Should Be Celebrated
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Remember to Celebrate!
Publishing Party - October 2004, originally uploaded by teachergal. Katherine Bomer spoke about the celebrating the work our young writers do when she delivered the Keynote Address at the TCRWP July Writing Institute. She made me reflect on the way I celebrate my students' work, which I do at the end of each unit of… Continue reading Remember to Celebrate!
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Making a List. Checking It Twice.
I created a large checklist, which I'm going to post in the classroom on Monday, to help my students get ready for Tuesday afternoon's Poetry Publishing Party. I realized yesterday, when I saw one of my students walking around with his Poetry Portfolio Guidelines Packet that the kids really needed a list since there's a… Continue reading Making a List. Checking It Twice.
