The following was originally published September 16, 2009 at http://6traits.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-delicious-bug/
In The Delicious Bug by Janet Perlman, Willy and Wally see a delicious bug by the pond… kerBLAPPP!
They both caught the bug at the same time! Ideas Mini-lesson
Primary/Intermediate: This book was created by an animator, so it looks like a comic. Students can make their own comics with ReadWriteThink’s Comic Creator.
Before they go to the web to create the comic, ask students to make a practice comic strip. What will their character do? What will he say? Literacy Links
The Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency helping your students "go deep" with sentence variety during classroom writing instruction
WritingFix offers a free template of Sentence Fluency Post-It sized notes. These can either be printed on orange colored paper and cut out and stapled to students' drafts, or you can--if you dare--attempt to print them on real 3 x 3 Post-It Notes.
The two most common English words that start our sentences? I and The. If you currently have a classroom of students, you know this to be true.
It's such a simple lesson to ask students to revisit their drafts by circling the first words of their sentences, then asking, "Did you think about starting with a variety of words?" Most of them haven't thought about this, and the question becomes the catalyst for a new way to think about revising writing.
Here is our current collection of prompts and lessons to challenge students to begin their sentences differently.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate.
In The Delicious Bug by Janet Perlman, Willy and Wally see a delicious bug by the pond…
kerBLAPPP!
They both caught the bug at the same time!
Ideas Mini-lesson
Primary/Intermediate: This book was created by an animator, so it looks like a comic. Students can make their own comics with ReadWriteThink’s Comic Creator.
Before they go to the web to create the comic, ask students to make a practice comic strip. What will their character do? What will he say?
Literacy Links
The following was originally published September 13, 2009 at http://6-traits.blogspot.com/2009/09/writing-fix-sentence-fluency-homepage.html
- WritingFix: The Sentence Fluency Hompagetags: writing, 6-traits
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.The Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency helping your students "go deep" with sentence variety during classroom writing instruction
WritingFix offers a free template of Sentence Fluency Post-It sized notes. These can either be printed on orange colored paper and cut out and stapled to students' drafts, or you can--if you dare--attempt to print them on real 3 x 3 Post-It Notes.
The two most common English words that start our sentences? I and The. If you currently have a classroom of students, you know this to be true.
It's such a simple lesson to ask students to revisit their drafts by circling the first words of their sentences, then asking, "Did you think about starting with a variety of words?" Most of them haven't thought about this, and the question becomes the catalyst for a new way to think about revising writing.
Here is our current collection of prompts and lessons to challenge students to begin their sentences differently.
UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate.