Ch.+2+Face-to-Face+Discussion+Notes

Chapter 2 – Discussion Notes

QUOTES & IDEAS THAT HAD AN IMPACT How many of you continue to use writing prompts after the assessment?

“…the sense of achievement is equally strong when students flip through a notebook that is filled with their words on every page from beginning to end. Finishing a writer’s notebook, truly finishing it, is as important to a writer as finishing a book is to a reader.”

GOOD IDEAS Lifting lines – great place to get ideas Dealing with handouts – instead of gluing them in, have kids make their own resource pages using color, etc. Tell lots of stories – enough so that all students will have something to write about

YES, BUTs… WORRIES…ROADBLOCKS

Big Picture of the Common Core Standards before we work on unpacking standards and unit plans

TO DO/TO CONSIDER/TO FIGURE OUT Use one topic as the subject for both expository and narrative

Observing a writing workshop

We need to strike a balance: Structure of 6 Traits with the freedom to be able write from interests

Notes in the back notebook:  Good writers use spaces between their words

<span style="color: #09110b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tie science to expository writing

<span style="color: #09110b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">