Posted by civinskasc on 8/08/08

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I'm currently planning out my year. I want to begin using
the writing traits more proficiently this year but I'm
struggling with a way to fit it into my class set up.

I teach 8th grade English and my blocks are only 50
minutes long. We currently don't do "writer's workshop"
or "reader's workshop." We do lessons that go with what
we're writing, and when we read books we usually focus on
literary elements, etc. I'm fairly sure my class period is
too short to break it up into doing both things in a day
AND I'm worried about my SpEd students if I do an every
other day kind of thing. I'm afraid they'll be hopelessly
lost, not knowing what we're doing each day, or forgetting
what they read last, etc.

How can I successfully teach literature and the traits
within a 50 min. period?

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