Short Story about man with umbrella?
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Jun 11, 2011
I am also the 2-3 EL teacher, and have been trying to get that little group up to par on their writing.
Spending lots of time thinking about my writing program and the results. Not a lot of success, and lots of frustration on my part.
I realized, I don't think my kids really understand Topic sentences and Conclusion sentences, and how they relate. They are amazing on details, but the organization and form of a paragraph just wasn't being demonstrated.
I am so pleased with the results. I still have students who aren't indenting, or are indenting the whole paragraph, but it is just a few. Many of my students are taking the format and doing multiparagraph writing and I am just happy.
Ralph Fletcher said if you don't teach writing daily, you might as well not teach writing. I am seeing the results of th...See More
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>this year, nothing was > really working for my guys. > > Spending lots of time thinking about my writing program and > the results. Not a lot of success, and lots of frustration > on my part. > > I realized, I don't think my kids really understand Topic > sent...See More