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Work on Writing
"The writing component of the Daily Five provides additional support children require to become effective writers. Its purpose is to provide daily writing practice." (The Daily Five p. 80) During this rotation students typically work on writing of their choice. Many primary teachers have a separate writing workshop, where students may be required to produce a piece of writing directly related to the lessons taught or genre being explored. Intermediate teachers tend to combine the workshop and Work on Writing. It all depends on master schedules and time available each day. Whatever you do, we invite you to join us as we support our children as they Work on Writing.
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Website - 50 Tools to Improve Writing
We love it when smart people put together useful and relevant resources that help us teach our learners or grow as learners ourselves. Here is a site that does just that. You'll find 50 links that o . . .
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Ideas for Your Writing - Website
Neil Gaiman, the author of Coraline, The Graveyard Book and many more, addresses the all important question...Where do you get ideas for your books? He used to respond: "From the Idea-of-the-Mont . . .
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Daily Five - Writing Improvement (VIDEO)
If your focus lessons are long and you are having a hard time shortening them, you may want to watch this video as Danielle reviews with her Kindergarten students the essentials for their writing. N . . .
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Daily 5 - Work on Writing - Word Choice (VIDEO)
This small group of writers is meeting with Gail and Natalie to discuss word choice. Gail uses 2 different pieces of writing to demonstrate the purpose of finding the right words: * to make the . . .
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Daily 5 - Modeled Writing and Heart Words (VIDEO)
Years ago we bought a professional development book that was all about modeled writing. The book was good, but produced in us a great yearning to actually see it in action. What did it really look l . . .
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Daily 5 - Caleb Shares His Writing (VIDEO)
Wrapping up a session of Daily 5 with a purposeful and focused sharing time is a powerful way to review the strategies taught during the day and to review strategies previously covered. Sharing time . . .
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Daily 5 Literacy Block (DOWNLOAD)
In our book, we created a visual look at the structure of The Daily 5 in the classroom. It is a variation of the traditional workshop model with a short, focused whole group lesson, brief whole group . . .
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Daily 5 - Graphing Stamina (DOWNLOAD)
We know from experience that making a goal visible helps us stay motivated to achieve it. Our kids aren't any different, so we use this graph to help inspire the growth of stamina in our rooms. We i . . .
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Daily 5 - Adding Choice and Checking In (VIDEO)
After Read to Self and Work on Writing have both been launched, we often feel a bit like we are standing on top of a mountain, admiring a view of great beauty. Students are actually reading and writi . . .
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Daily 5 - Check In with Goal and Strategy (VIDEO)
When we first ask students to "Check In", they do it by telling us which Daily 5 they will work on during that round of the Dailys. Eventually we teach them how to "Check In", by naming their Daily, . . .
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