SUBSCRIBE chat center Gazette|Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise SUBMIT POST ALL POSTS TOP POSTS Share | Print | Report Post Professional Readings For Teachers Chatboard Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set Hot Now... • August 2008 Gazette • Teacher Tech Center • The Lesson Bank Most Popular • Set Your Quick Links • Chat Center • All Chatboards • Lesson Bank • Teacher Mailrings • Project Center • Classified Ads • Live Chat & Meetings Select by • State/Region • Grade Level • Curriculum • Interest Group • Teaching Method Special Topics • Technology • Languages • Hot Topics • Career Center • Distance Learning • Fundraising • Tutoring Center • Teacher's Bookshelf • Free Printables • Classroom Photos • Meeting Archive • Teaching Articles • Library • Web Tools • Webring • Search • Advertise   Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1 Posted by PMo on 6/27/08 Yes, exactly, Judy-- that specificity she describes is part of what excited me. How well that first and second chapters dovetailed with the conversation below on teaching for transfer. I don't recall which chapter, but when she describes "attending more to the writing than the writer" while doing conferences, THAT was my aha moment. So often, I feel as if I've taken on the role of editor vs. teacher. I can take apart a piece of writing, I can see where its needs are, I can craft questions to assist the writer in considering how to address these needs, but I don't feel that I'm teaching the skills necessary to allow that student to transfer what *I've* just done to what she-the- writer needs to do and to keep on doing. I'm not teaching for the highest level of Bloom's - to create a new piece of work on one's own utilizing what's been learned. I did disagree with one point she makes in Chapter One - while her overview of the change in writing instruction was something I DID agree with, I still don't see my students (in 4th grade) in command of the basic grammar skills they need to craft fluid sentences, or even sentences that make sense. I LOVED the example she gave of brainstorming with a class how to "fix" a boring sentence with lively writing. I can't count the numbers of times I've taught THAT lesson, only to find it goes nowhere. So I'm excited about breaking down the art of teaching writing into those "critical attributes" that will help my writers get to that stage of independence I so badly want for them. RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/27/08, by judy3ca. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/27/08, by PMo. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/27/08, by brad. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/27/08, by dc. Re: btw brad, I think...., 6/27/08, by dc. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/27/08, by judy3ca. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/27/08, by stacey/4th/FL. Re: (((stacey))), 6/27/08, by judy3ca. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/27/08, by Terry. Re: About the cooking analogy, 6/28/08, by PMo. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/28/08, by RD. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/28/08, by Terry. Re: Crafting Writers, Chapter 1, 6/28/08, by judy3ca.

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