Hosted a Primary Lead Teacher group meeting today at my school. It is such a wonderful learning experience to get to work with this great team of teachers. We got to share some of the great things that each of us is doing. We also went into my classroom today. Staff developer did a mini lesson on raising the level of the jots kids are making. She had them state their opinion, give a reason for it, and give an example from the text to support their ideas. The "giving the reason" part seemed to be the biggest challenge for my kids. I am going to reteach it tomorrow. We'll see how it goes!
Anyway, I put together two ways that I think will help my kids write longer off of an idea that they recorded on a sticky note during their reading. (Part of the Opinion Writing Unit of Study from the Reading and Writing Project curricular calendar).

PEACE,
Carol

This is the anchor chart that I created to model what a jot would look like at each level.

Anchor Charts for Series Book Clubs Unit

As I sit here thinking about lesson planning for the upcoming week…looking at the kid's jots from the lessons completed on character traits this past week...I am thinking that I could possibly move most of them into inferencing, as they think about the actions and traits of the characters in their series books. My ELLS are struggling a bit so I am going to stick to having them sort feelings and traits for a little while longer. Below are the two anchor charts we are working with in the current unit on series clubs.
Happy Saturday!