Writing With a Purpose - article by Sarah Powley
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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?
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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