We Are Authors! January 22, 2010
Posted by Ms Tulli in Class News.Tags: oral reading, peer feedback, personal narratives, publishing, Writing
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The children recently finished publishing their favorite personal narrative story. They chose from a variety of publishing options and were eager to share their stories with an audience.
As we know that authors write to share their ideas with others, we decided to share our stories with other students in Kindergarten, Grade One and Grade Two.
Students practiced reading their stories orally in order to get ready for their readings. They received feedback from classmates on a Read Aloud Checklist in order to help them improve their presentation.
Their stories were well-received by the students! Keep reading to see how we felt about the experience.
Brandon -Before I read I was very scared and nervous but when I was reading, it was easy.
Ellis - I liked it when we were practicing reading because we got to read to the whole class.
Ethan - When I got up to the little kids I felt like I was getting a shot at the doctor’s office because I was nervous.
Hae-Lim - I felt excited to share my story because I liked the problem in my story getting bigger and bigger.
Jesstina I liked it because I read loudly and clearly and the class sat nicely and listened.
Josh - It was very fun and a little bit scary reading to the first graders because I thought they might not like my story but they told me they liked it.
Jungyoon - It was hard to read slowly because I was nervous, but I think I kind of did it!
Lily - It was fun to read the book to my sister and brother and their class because I liked the story. I think they liked it too.
Nikki - I thought it was fun because the kindergarten was listening to my story.
Oh-Min - I was shy because all of the students looked at me.
Ta - I think it was fun when we shared the stories because we are the characters in the stories.
Tamar - I thought that it was exciting to have an audience because if we want to be teachers when we get big it’ll be easy to read stories to our children.
Thanakorn - It was hard to say the words slow because I talk fast at home, but I did it.
Tobias - First I felt scared because I thought my story was bad but then I felt normal. It was nice telling it.
Tres - It was funny that Ty (my brother) was smiling because when he laughs I laugh with him too.
Ya’el - It was so much fun! I felt like a teacher when I read because I saw the students looking at me!
Can You Find the Treasure? November 6, 2009
Posted by Ms Tulli in Class News.Tags: conferences, Geography, Mapping, oral reading, peer editing, Process, self-editing, Social Studies, Strategies, technology, Writing, writing process
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Our projects are complete and demonstrate a great deal of learning across various subjects. Students worked to practice and apply the following concepts and skills in their work.
Writing
- using procedural writing to communicate directions
- using sequential words to organize their writing
- including details and description
- using the writing process to self-edit, peer edit and conference with teachers before publishing
Reading
- reading aloud clearly with expression and appropriate pacing
Geography
- map components - key, compass rose, title
- using cardinal directions to navigate
Technology
- saving and retrieving files from a thumb drive
- using Notebook software
- keyboarding
- giving thoughtful feedback to other students’ via the blog
Enjoy! Hope you find the treasures!
We Are Writers September 22, 2009
Posted by Ms Tulli in Language Arts.Tags: Process, Strategies, Writing
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We are fortunate to have Mrs. Gaetgaoew in our class during Writing Workshop. Primarily, Mrs. G is with us to help support our English language learners, however we use a team-teaching approach and Mrs. G. often lends support wherever she sees the need.
Since the beginning of the year, during Writing Workshop, we have been working on walking through the world as writers. We want the children to know that they have stories in their lives that are worth telling – they just have to notice them and save them so that they can write about them later.
The children spent the first few weeks doing lots of wonderful writing while we taught mini-lessons to develop their writing skills.
Mini-lessons included the following
• Choosing a topic
• Writing to get our ideas down
• Conferring with a partner and a teacher
• Organizing our ideas before we write
• Revising our work by adding details
• Rewriting a piece of work for publishing
• Using an editing checklist
• Publishing our work for an audience
Students used the Writing Process to move from writing first drafts to publishing their best work.
First Draft - We wrote to get our ideas down.
Revising - We chose a piece to make into our best work and got feedback from our partners on how to make it better.
Planning - We planned how to organize our story.
Second Draft - We applied what we learned to improve our work.
Editing - We checked our work over.
Conferring - We worked with a partner to improve our work even further.
Publishing and Sharing - We made a published copy to proudly share with an audience.
Congratulations to all of our talented authors!