Grades Posted

Happy Holidays all!  

May you have a joyous season and a great break from school.

Your grades have all been posted.  It has been a pleasure to work with you.

The END

Our class time is over officially. I have been enjoying the posts and conversation.

You have this week to catch up.  The blog will continue to be available for as long as you wish if you want to share ideas and questions.

Here are the requirements for credit again:

• One post on each week's topic for a total of four posts

• Two lesson plan posts

I will submit grades December 10. 
(This is my view from my house in Trapper Creek. We have very little snow so far this year.)

Week Four: Word Choice in Writing

Week Four: Word Choice in Writing

This short video is a good review for the trait of word choice.  Think about what you do and what you can do in your classroom to promote this important trait.  Words matter so much!

Week Four: Words are Powerful Tools!

I use this with my college students as an introduction to the importance of every word they use in a piece of writing.  It works to generate discussion.

Week Three: Conventions and Editing vs. Revision

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week, in our third of four series, we will focus on CONVENTIONS, REVISION, and ways to encourage correctness with writers.

Georgia Head in The Revision Toolbox makes a distinction between editing and revision.  Revision is seeing writing anew and making deep changes in areas such as organization, ideas and voice. I hope you liked the youtube video I posted.  Let me know if it is effective if you use it with students.

 Editing, on the other hand,  is making sure our writing is correct.  I often use anonymous papers or assignments from previous years for "correcting" grammar and punctuation in class. I also have students help each other proofread.  Mini lessons and reinforcements are essential.  We know we cannot suppose that by "teaching" something once,  students have "learned" all they need to know about it.  Direct instruction and repetition, in my opinion, are key to teaching conventions.

What do you think?  How do you approach revision?  What do you do to teach proofreading and conventions? What do your teaching sources say that you find valuable?  Let's have a conversation on this topic.

Week Three :Teaching Kids About Revising (Writing Workshop Lesson)