Jenni- We have been doing a journal writing where my second graders learned about writing on a topic and adding three details. After a couple of weeks of instruction and practice time, this became an independent work for them. As I read them over, I decided to make it an instructional tool again since several children were thinking a line of writing was a sentence. I did some whole group work, and then assigned topics to groups to write about individually while they discussed among their groups.
It seemed that encouraging them to discuss or verbally rehearse while writing was motivating along with introducing a paragraph writing check list. I hope these little steps to independence are helpful to you too. Journals are again an independent writing time in my classroom. Kim On 12/2/08, suzie herb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
