An Old Slice of Life Story That I Tucked Into a Student's Notebook Originally uploaded by teachergal I had a pile of student notebooks in front of me yesterday. One of them had a lot of improvement last week in that the student really attempted to use conventions more in his nightly writing. (This particular… Continue reading Have You Tucked-In Your Writing Lately?
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SOLSC Inspiration
Looking for ways to get your class inspired about the upcoming Slice of Life Story Challenge? Here are a few ideas: 1. Send a letter home like I posted on Sunday. Be sure to have it translated so your students' parents are fully aware of what's going on. (You may encourage them to participate too!)… Continue reading SOLSC Inspiration
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Gearing Up for the Classroom Part of the Slice of Life Story Challenge
Are you planning to host a Slice of Life Story Challenge (SOLSC) in your classroom during the month of March? If so, here are some basic tools to launch it this-coming Sunday, 3/1/09. #1) Send home an announcement about the SOLSC this week. Here's an example of the one I'm sending home, which looks a… Continue reading Gearing Up for the Classroom Part of the Slice of Life Story Challenge
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Writerly Things to Do on February Break
Are you off from work this week? Are you looking for ways to nurture your inner writer? If so, then here's a little list I made, which may (or may not) appeal to you. TODAY: Write a Memoir Monday Post. TUESDAY: Participate in the Slice of Life Story Challenge. WEDNESDAY: Do any planning you may… Continue reading Writerly Things to Do on February Break
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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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Emotional & Truthful: That’s What Memoir Is!
I'm teaching memoir right now. It falls into our schedule early this year... and I love it! On Friday I had four conferences, two of which my students didn't follow through with, which really disappointed me. They both forgot to take their notebooks home over the weekend and therefore didn't write. However, I now know… Continue reading Emotional & Truthful: That’s What Memoir Is!
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Have You Ever Asked Your Kids for Feedback on YOUR Writing?
A few years ago I often began asking my students to tell me what I did well as a writer and what I could work on as a writer when I gave them a piece of my writing to read. At first, this was hard for them. Who wants to critique their teacher, right? Well,… Continue reading Have You Ever Asked Your Kids for Feedback on YOUR Writing?
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A New Writer’s Notebook Rubric
Sometimes you have to let go of the reigns and allow your students to lead you, right. Well, I'm preparing to do just that tomorrow when I work with my students, during Writing Workshop, to create a new notebook rubric. (I've been using one that is slightly adapted from Buckner's Book since 2006.) In “Assessing… Continue reading A New Writer’s Notebook Rubric
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Portable Writer’s Notebooks
I've written a couple of mini-grant proposal on DonorsChoose.org in the past couple of years for real writer's notebooks (i.e., Bluelines and Moleskines) for my students to use so that they wouldn't have to carry around clunky writer's notebooks since adult writers don't (so why should kids if we're asking them to take their notebook… Continue reading Portable Writer’s Notebooks
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Mid-Year Self-Evaluation: Want a Copy?
It's that time again... This-coming week is Mid-Year Self-Evaluation Time in my class's Writing Workshop. I've revamped the Mid-Year Self-Evaluation to reflect the questions from not only Buckner's Book (as I have done in the past), but from Elliott's Book, along with some of my own questions. It's a lot less intensive on photocopying entries… Continue reading Mid-Year Self-Evaluation: Want a Copy?
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Ways I Use My Writer’s Notebook
I shared an excerpt from the Jacqueline Woodson Section of Speaking of Journals by Paula W. Graham with my students today. Afterwards, we all wrote down some ways in which we already use our notebooks (or could use them based off of what we learned from the Woodson Piece, which inspired lots of great ideas… Continue reading Ways I Use My Writer’s Notebook
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Purposes for Writing in a Notebook: Kids’ Responses
My markers may have been drying up, but there was nothing that was going to stop me from recording my kids' responses during the minilesson I gave today. Take a look at what they had to say. (Click here for the corresponding lesson.)
