John listed four things as his CI power activities: CWB vPQA Movie Talks Story-Asking Mine are: SSR Stories Grammar (as a throw-them-a-bone-activity so people stay off my butt) WCTG Textivate (as a the-teacher-uses-technology activity) Free Writes Dictee The Class Poem I just don’t have time for anything else! If others want to share it might […]
The current thread here about using interview type activities to get more output from students vs. the traditional less output centered classes that we have when we use stories has been addressed by Nathaniel in a tour de force comment this morning that pretty much solves the problem for me, enabling me to focus less
The free write numbers of my foundational kids dropped noticeably in one class today. What is shocking is that the scores went down just at the time I stopped doing stories – the last free write was in November. Maybe it’s not such a shock. Maybe all this talk of relaxing needs to shift to
