Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Ch. 1 Simplify the Teaching of Writing
I believe effective teachers are constantly refining instructional practices. I think you have to connect with young writers through literature, constantly pointing out great writing and modeling every step. This chapter mentions the importance of conferencing with your students to assess and evaluate noting strengths, giving feedback, and setting goals. Due to the confines of our daily schedule this is difficult to schedule. "Whole to part to whole" makes a lot of sense to me and I'm excited about incorporating more writing experiences using this theory.
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I agree totally with your thoughts of what effective teachers are doing!! It is integrated into all subjects. Yet how true that the big problem seems to be trying to schedule conferencing with students during already full days.
Chris,
I was also excited about the "whole -to-part-to-whole" concept. It is probably the way many of us have been teaching writing but may have felt guilty for not teaching the 6-traits in isolation.
Chris,
I agree with your comments on strategies that good teachers use. It is a shame that time gets trimmed off of these strategies to meet all of our requirements. It makes sense to teach whole-to-part-to-whole.
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