Hi! Tell us more about the "Readers Response Journals"--how you use them in class and how do you grade them?
Do students ever share aloud from them or are they personal? Thank you, Bill. Lucinda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill IVEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:09 AM Subject: Re: [LIT] Discussion on Homework > Hi! > > We use "Readers Response Journals" in my class. My kids use one of Keith > Mack's bulletin boards, and the 8th graders handwrite them. I try to write > responses to all the entries - ideally every week, but sometimes I get a > bit (okay, a lot) behind. > > I am currently reading "Shadow Baby" to my Humanities 7 class, and the > main character invents books for all her book reports because she can't > stand what a book report does to a book. One of my current students has > similar feelings to RRJ entries, and I have to concede that I do see her > point. For her, being completely in the moment with a book is what it's > all about, and she gets really frustrated with having to look back on it > and get it down on paper, partially, I think, because she doesn't want to > leave anything out and partially because she just finds it tedious. > > I have to say that I 100% sympathize with her. Yet I do believe that RRJs > can help students begin to think more deeply about reading as they react > to my responses and questions back to them, and that they can help build > reading skills. It's a conundrum. > > Take care, > Bill Ivey > Stoneleigh-Burnham School > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/760 - Release Date: 4/13/2007 > 8:04 PM > > _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
