Take some time to browse through the DVD.  Choose a part to watch and then reflect on it.  What did it make you think about?  What did you notice about Penny's teaching that is something you could try?  How does this make you think differently about your students?  What did you notice?

Continuing Reading Group

Choose a line from your reading and write to it.  Remember it is wise to write in word first and the copy in paste just in case.  What does this line make you think about?  What have you found in  your reading that applies to your students and how can you use it effectively?

NEW Reading Group....


For this entry I am asking that your reflect on your reading from Chapter 6.  What are you thinking?

WRITING GROUP - Belief Statements

What a great class the other day. I love hearing your writing, your thoughts and ideas around writing. What we did not get to in class was for everyone to share their beliefs about writing and the teaching of writing so for this month's post I am going to ask that you reread your beliefs and post them here on the blog. We will return to these beliefs at the end of our course to see if our thinking has changed at all over the course of our work together.

For this blog I am going to ask that you choose a specific quote from your reading in Chapters 1- 4 in our text, post that quote in quotation marks (of course) and write "to" that quote. What does this make you think about? Wonder about? Why does this particular quote speak to you, bother you, keep you thinking?

Write Beside Them

Just like in our reading course I am going to ask that you also choose a quote from Penny Kittle's book that you really liked, wondered about, are thinking about and see where that thinking leads you in terms of your beliefs about the teaching of writing and what that means for you and your students. You might also include your belief statement as assigned and modeled in Chapter 2, and your adventures in choosing the "perfect" writer's notebook for yourself!!

For this blog I am going to ask that you choose a specific quote from your reading in Chapters 1 and 2 in our text, post that quote in quotation marks (of course) and write "to" that quote. What does this make you think about? Wonder about? Why does this particular quote speak to you, bother you, keep you thinking?