It's working better to drop the iPad and use big sheets of paper. I can check in with the artist a lot more since I can see what is being drawn, and hold the artist responsible to me visually. Is

Does anyone have any ideas about what the best format for drawing is? I used to use that rolling whiteboard with front and back and it was fantastic. Now I use the iPad to project the work when the story

Joe Dziedzic does something in his new video (I'll post the link tomorrow) that some of us might want to do. He has a L1 story writer as most of us do (for the all important reason that we can

Claire wrote: "My class artist draws on my Surface and it projects for the whole class (this would work with ipad - but I think my pen works better). She’s super fast at drawing and very skilled. Students give her directions

New job: the Creator of the Invisibles. This student draws and labels our class invisibles with details like foods they like, favorite color, invisible sisters and brothers, etc. (See "Jobs for Kids" category for more)

We must gesture the verb when we say it during PQA, all the time. We must constantly invite the kids to do the same. We can't gesture the verbs in stories anywhere nearly as often as we can in PQA

Those in the PLC who are familiar with the terms and who are experienced, do CWB to finish classes. Start with stories. Be sure to assign jobs: Story Writer Quiz Writer Artist 3 PQA Counters Professor 2 Timer Why? Because assigning these jobs and getting the kids

I was reading a comment by David Sceggel over break and noticed that in it he mentioned a job - a really cool one - that is not even listed in our list of 62 jobs on this site. It's

Here is another jewel from Erin for us: 2. Classroom jobs. I have been reading up on your posts about jobs, and it's always been something that I avoided because it seemed too 'babyish' for my high school students. Well, I