What kind of feedback do you offer your students on their writing? Are you red pen crazy? Do you mark up the paragraph, page, or essay with slashes, carots, and circles every where there is an error? Do you do this with another color pen – trying to conceal your zeal for marking the page?…
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This morning I spent an hour working on a post I have had sitting my drafts folder for a couple of weeks. It is a post on untold stories. Already quite lengthy, I was trying to tweak it a bit. Some parts were not as clear as I wanted them, so I was working on…
Working together on our haiku unit in the spring is one of my favorite writer’s circle activities. By the time students are in third grade, they are at least familiar with, if not adept, at counting the number of syllables present in words. Accuracy in counting syllabic parts of words is an essential part of…
Blogging, like a lot of things in life, is like a popularity contest. I have never been a “popular” person or run with the “in-crowd”, so why should I expect differently from my blog? I am beginning to accept this. I write because it satisfies me, I have been told I am good at it,…
Over the summer I heard a few times from one of my former students from the Third Grade Writer’s Circle group I have led as a volunteer for the last six years. She was a particularly precocious writer and has continued to send me bits and pieces of her writing since she was in my…
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Having written/posted a whopping 178 blog posts since February 23rd 2017, the date I started this blog, I thought I would take a minute and reflect on my writing. I sat back and tried to take an objective look at my writing and how it appears so far. These are my thoughts: Amusing? Yes, at…
There is much I could write about today for my slice of life post and the supportive writing community of two writing teachers blog. There is the personal angle, really foremost in my mind that today is my 30th wedding anniversary! It really is a milestone of two lives entwined with a shared past, content…
Being blessed with an acute sense of smell is both a blessing and a curse. The tiniest of scent in the air can be picked up by my olfactory system. Scents, like music, can also transport me in time back to my first love – a clean fresh smell of deodorant, or being in college,…