What grade do you teach Jenni?
--- On Tue, 2/12/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Reading Response Journals > To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" > <[email protected]> > Received: Tuesday, 2 December, 2008, 9:16 PM > How about a checklist or a tic-tac toe type list? Giving > them a choice might help them to be more motivated. I talked > with a former student of mine a while back and I asked him > what he liked the most and least about my class. He gave me > things he liked but one thing he hated. "I hated those > stupid letters we always had to write." I have since > then given them more choices and it seems to make it more > interesting for them. > -------------- Original message from "Yingling" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > > > > I am struggling to get my students to write quality > letters within their > > reader's notebooks. It's December and they are > still simply giving me > > summaries. I ask them questions and give comments in > my letters back to > > them yet most of my kids aren't responding to my > questions/comments. I've > > gone to giving the kids grades and their grades > don't even seem to motivate > > some of them to do better. We've written sample > letters together, I've > > shown them examples, I've written examples for > them, I've given them letter > > starters. What do I do next? The kids seem to just > want me to give them > > worksheets to complete - they don't want to think. > > > Help please, > > Jenni > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mosaic mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > > > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > > > > Search the MOSAIC archives at > http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at > http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
