I am excited about using journals across the curriculum. I like this idea for a couple of reasons. One being that the student will have to read to respond. Another reason is some kids don't like to ask questions out loud and this would give the opportunity to ask questions or make comments. I think it will take time to get the students in the practice of writing good journal entries. It will take a lot of demonstration on my part. This will be my second year in 3rd grade and I feel like journal writing will fill in some of the gaps I felt existed last year.
I think I can set up a KWL journal for some topics/subjects. This would be very similar to the Triple_Entry Incident Journal mentioned in the article "Writing As Reflective Action." I am looking for ways to get all the student engaged. I think this is one way.
I also want to incorporate more shared writing activities to teach some of the mechanics of writing. This will allow the students to learn in a non-threatening environment.
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I also need to do more shared writing to teach capitalization, punctuation this year however with larger class sizes what can the students do that have problems staying focused. I use individual boards or tablets during Interactive writing which allows everyone to do something while we are recording the message. I wonder if that idea would work for shared writing.
I am excited to rethink my use of journals. I always have had the kids use a journal, but I never felt like they were worthwhile. I seemed to use them as "fill in" time. You know, "Hey, kids let"s write in our journals for the last ten minutes." Then we never actually did anything with them. My purpose has changed. I have more ideas on their effectiveness and am excited to actually use them as a tool instead of a time saver. I see a light bulb!!
Since I have already read your first time journal on Elbow, I can say thank you for showing me how to do this properly. I approached the task apprehensively and didn't do it well. Now that I have seen it done well I have a better idea how to do this more successfully. Thanks Kris!
Once I had my students write an entire paragraph without any punctuation and then have a partner go back find the punctuation. It was a really cool way for even college level students to value punctuation!
sue! what a fabulous idea! at the Chillicothe regional campus, lots of students visit the Writing Center who have trouble with "stops" . . . I wonder if I could come up with a quick, generic paragraph w/o punctuation to show those students and emphasize its use for clarity.
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