We had a great first week in English Language Arts setting up our Reader's and Writer's notebooks! Reader's Notebooks are a place to write about and reflect on their reading, while Writer's Notebooks are for practicing the craft of writing. We'll be using both in class every week. In their Reader's Notebooks, students created a reading timeline of books that have been important to them in their lives. We also talked about different genres, and why it's important to push yourself to read outside of your comfort zone. On Thursday students created some goals for themselves as readers for this quarter, and on Friday they set up their reading logs, where they will be recording what they read both in school and at home. I encouraged them to do some reading just for fun at home this weekend, and to come to class on Monday ready to log it in their notebooks. Here are both classes generating definitions of different genres in fiction and nonfiction: In their Writer's notebooks, students created head or heart maps of people, places, things, and ideas that are meaningful to them. You can check out some of their work below. On Friday they created a page titled "This summer, my feet have been..." about the places their feet traveled this summer. Don't let the picture Greg posted on the class instagram page fool you - they created some beautiful designs in their notebooks. Both of these pages will be helpful when it's time to generate ideas for personal narratives and other writing projects. Next week we will begin our first class novel, Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, and I will begin reading Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman aloud for the last few minutes of class.
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AuthorLauren Yavor teaches ELA with a reader's and writer's workshop format to SK 5th and 6th graders. Archives
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