If you want to build a community of writers, start by supporting feedback- writer to writer. Early on in the year we establish our author's chair routines, which is when, after working on writing, students elect to sit in the authors' chair, share their writing, and receive feedback. (Note: author's chair only needs to be … Continue reading Effective Peer Feedback for Young Writers: One Scoop or Two?
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The Writing Process: Lenses for Primary Writers from Planning to Publishing
It's not really THE writing process. It's A writing process. And it's not necessarily a linear process. It's a collection of lenses for improving writing from different perspectives. Pick up any book on teaching writing and it'll deliver you a different version of The writing process. That's ok. I don't think there are two authors … Continue reading The Writing Process: Lenses for Primary Writers from Planning to Publishing
9 Types of Reading Journal Entries
A typical independent reading task in my classroom consists of reading and a response to reading. A response to reading usually is done in the reading journal. It helps students to confidently and independently respond to texts if, over the year, you help them build up a bank of reading journal entry types that they … Continue reading 9 Types of Reading Journal Entries
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