Our focus right now is on sentence fluency-sentence beginnings. My grade 7 students are experiencing difficulty writing inverted sentences. I though they could do it, but after giving them a Sentence Beginnings paragraph challenge (begin one sentence with a preposition, one with an "ly" adverb, one with an adjective, etc), I realized they aren't ready for that. I teach in an international school, but technically they are ESL students. Any ideas for a mini-lesson that doesn't involve rewriting sentences? Thanks
Why not have them go on a hunt, first? They could search for writers who begin sentences in a wide variety of ways, come up with a list themselves, and then combine all the lists for a giant resource of examples that may be helpful in teaching sf in the future. They could group them--these ones begin with -ing words (participles and gerunds), these ones with infinitives...and so on. It may be a better way to start and build the knowledge rather than through direct teacher / student interaction...
Peace always,
Chuck
On 3/26/07, hannah wrote: > Our focus right now is on sentence fluency-sentence > beginnings. My grade 7 students are experiencing > difficulty writing inverted sentences. I though they could > do it, but after giving them a Sentence Beginnings > paragraph challenge (begin one sentence with a preposition, > one with an "ly" adverb, one with an adjective, etc), I > realized they aren't ready for that. I teach in an > international school, but technically they are ESL > students. Any ideas for a mini-lesson that doesn't involve > rewriting sentences? > Thanks
anyone have any six trait lessons they use with this book? I was thinking about a lesson on word choice but I'm new to the traits and am unsure of how to go about the lesson. Thanks!
I have to create a database for my elementary school K-5 containing picture book titles that are great for modeling writing traits. Please help me get started! Is there a good comprehensive source I could use? Thanks so much!
I have to create a database for my elementary school K-5 containing picture book titles that are great for modeling writing traits. Please help me get started! Is there a good comprehensive source I could use? Thanks so much!
On 4/21/07, jools wrote: > I have to create a database for my elementary school K-5 > containing picture book titles that are great for modeling > writing traits. Please help me get started! Is there a good > comprehensive source I could use? Thanks so much!
I have to create a database for my elementary school K-5 containing picture book titles that are great for modeling writing traits. Please help me get started! Is there a good comprehensive source I could use? Thanks so much!
I have to create a database for my elementary school K-5 containing picture book titles that are great for modeling writing traits. Please help me get started! Is there a good comprehensive source I could use? Thanks so much!
Our team needs 3rd grade exemplar papers. Do you have an exemplar that has been scored on all six traits that we could see? Our district uses a 4 point rubric to align with the state. Any help or insight would be appreciated.
My students are still having trouble with editing. I have modeled how to do it and practiced it whole group, but when they do it on their own they still have many errors. I don’t know if they are just pretending to edit their work or other students, because some of the errors are simple, or if they are not careful during this step. What could I do to motivate them?
On 4/25/07, Luis Ramos wrote: > My students are still having trouble with editing. I have > modeled how to do it and practiced it whole group, but > when they do it on their own they still have many errors. > I don’t know if they are just pretending to edit their > work or other students, because some of the errors are > simple, or if they are not careful during this step. What > could I do to motivate them?
I have taped small charts of editing marks to my student's desks. We edit on a almost on a daily basis. In the beginning it was very difficult and I asked myself the same questions. Are they just being lazy? Do they really not get it? Are they just pretending? The answer is YES! So to counter that I have my students work in groups of 6, that's just what works with my class size it could really be groups of any number but you really want them to work in groups that are larger than 3 or 4. Each person in each group has a different colored pencil/pen and they take turns editing each others assignments. So when a piece of writing is turned in, it has been checked 6 times. I know who's checked it because their names are on the bottom of the paper and I know the color they used and which mistakes they corrected and what they missed. This helps me to see which students need to be retaught certain things in terms of editing.
Hi, I am starting a poetry unit with my grade 7s. We use the 6 Traits, but I've never marked poetry using the 6 Trait rubric before. Does anyone have any thoughts on marking poetry with the rubric, or do you just mark like it is any other piece of writing? Thank you.
Well, I don't think you can score poetry using all of the rubric because it just doesn't have some of the traits (esp. sentence fluency), but other than that you could amend it pretty easily for a poem. Certainly word choice would be of vast importance in poetry, organization matters a great deal, some conventions are scorable, and so on. Judy
On 5/01/07, hannah wrote: > Hi, > I am starting a poetry unit with my grade 7s. We use the 6 > Traits, but I've never marked poetry using the 6 Trait > rubric before. Does anyone have any thoughts on marking > poetry with the rubric, or do you just mark like it is any > other piece of writing? > Thank you.
On 5/17/07, mary wrote: > I think one of my students copied instruction off of the > internet for a how to piece. How do I find out if he did? > Is there a site I can go to?
On 5/17/07, mary wrote: > I think one of my students copied instruction off of the > internet for a how to piece. How do I find out if he did? > Is there a site I can go to?
I have had luck before by typing in the first sentence in the google search box. When you push search, sometimes the paper pops up. Hopes this helps
Why not have them go on a hunt, first? They could search for
writers who begin sentences in a wide variety of ways, come
up with a list themselves, and then combine all the lists
for a giant resource of examples that may be helpful in
teaching sf in the future. They could group them--these ones
begin wit...See More