"Be a READER"
*This is the FIRST Thursday of our school year together and that means it is "Life Lesson" Thursday.
*Pretty much everything we are doing this first week of school is about having a "reading life".
*Pretty much everything we are doing this first week of school is about having a "reading life".
*When I saw this video, I knew I wanted to share it with my students. I don't love everything about it, but the overall message is an important one.
*I set aside time during each day for us to work in our writer's notebooks.
*We talk about what types of writing we can do in the notebook. Here are some of the possibilities...
-What we notice in the video
-What we wonder about
-Connections we have to the video
-Thoughts, feeling, emotions about the video clip
-Reminders we have from the lesson/message
-Create a fiction story about the video
*Once the video is shared with the writers, we spend a few minutes "talking" about what we observed.
*My writers set up their HEADING in the notebook and we get busy writing.
*During the start-up of the year, I have my students write for about five minutes. We slowly build our stamina for writing and slowly add time to the writing block.
*At the end of the individual writing time, we call on a few volunteers to share their actual writing and/or further thoughts about the video we watched and wrote about.
*If there is time, I sometimes share the video clip with my class at the end of the writer's notebook time.
Life Lessons for 2017-2018...
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