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?

Observations

Please write a quick summary of who you visited and what you saw or a copy of the thank you note you sent to the teacher you visited.

Final Reflection

Before you write this please take the time to read through all of the blogs written by you and your classmates. This is an opportunity to think about how your thinking has changed in terms of teaching reading and how your thinking impacts what you do in the classroom. What do you think that you didn't think before? What are you more aware of in your teaching when working with struggling readers? All of your readers? How does content play into this thinking? Are you a teacher of reading and what does that look like? These are just a few questions to get you started in your reflection. You do not need to answer every question. You just need to reflect on your practices and define them in writing.

Reading Response

Take some time to find something in the reading we have done in Kylene Beers' book and respond to it here in writing.