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5 thoughts on “Creating the Readings”
I do Write and Discuss, as well as having the 2 story writers. Sometimes we don’t get time to do the written story the same day so I have the students’ written texts there to remind me. When I do 2 or three stories a day, the details blur. Lol I’m finding that Storywriter 2 is a position that my students love. I put the ones who are strong in that job so they’re practicing their writing, and all of them are ready for that. They’re doing great with it.
Interesting. I have the students write it in Spanish. I just locate the highest processing students based on the free writes early on in the year. It has seemed to work and it makes less work for me.
These are usually the population of kids who traditionally should have been in Honors but take the “regular” track for the easy A. Either that or heritage and native speakers.
And here’s an even lazier version of Write and Discuss. Finish class in the last 10 minutes where you don’t have to engage with students at all by writing 10 sentences, or so, on the board leaving out a very easy word for students to fill in the blank. This easily takes up 10 minutes. Students may chatter but almost all of them are actively reading to figure out what word goes in the blank.
It’s a W&D ClOZE. We save our energy and our voices.
I love Tina’s W&D, but I can’t do it every time. I’m with Carol Gaab in part when she says that kids need novelty. Or at least, they need slight variations. I’ll have to try your StoryWriter, where I give a superstar my computer. I haven’t done that yet.
Sean for me they write it in L1 on a sheet of paper.
My classes are “one to one” every student has a device. I am considering a strong heritage speaker to write the stories and send them to me. That way I just post them on Google Classroom so everyone can read. I went paperless this year and it has been good because I observe them at every instance.
I have both Story writer and I also do W and Discuss but, student focus seems to burn out because there are heritage speakers in my Spanish 2 AND many of my students are fast processors. I then type the story to put into their Google Classroom and read the text to them then move on. I like Sean’s idea of CLOZE W&D.