Archives for December 2009
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KB Journal #4
In our class we have a student with special needs who did not produce any work during the first marking period. It would take forever to get this Writer4 to start working on a piece of writing, then a lot of one on one support to create a few sentences. This was very frustrating for my co-teacher and I [...]
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KB Journal #3
On Monday I met with Writer1 to see how her “small moment” ended up. She shared with me a story about going to her friend’s house after school. Writer1 was able to write a small moment story independently. I will be interested to see if she continues to write small moments over the next few [...]
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KB Journal #2
Writer2 always has great ideas, but sometimes her ideas do not come out in her writing. When I sat down today to talk about what she was working on, this is the story she read to me: I want to go to the beach because we would have a great day. So yeah. So we [...]
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KB Journal #1
Today I sat down to conference with Writer1. As I looked at her goals for this marking period, I saw that she wanted to learn how to write a “small moment” story. I had her re-read what she had already written and asked her what the story was about. The words she had written, were [...]
