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Welcome Visitors! This blog shows a Grade 4 Blogging Unit of Study. It was created to serve as a teaching tool for our students as well as a way for two teacher-researchers to record this very new kind of Writing Unit. The creators of this blog, two NJ teachers (one classroom teacher and one Literacy Coach), believe very strongly in teaching students about all genres of writing and believe that digital writing has a place in elementary school classrooms. We are teaching fourth graders how to read and write blogs because we think it will be a genre that they can use to write about what they are passionate about in the world. We welcome any comments and feedback on our lessons and also hope that we will soon have some very well written and thoughtful student blogs to share. Furthermore, as one of the outcomes of this unit, we hope our students will see themselves as writers who are able to produce writing that they feel proud of to put out there in the digital world for all to read and comment on.
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Lesson one
Welcome students and welcome to our next Writing Unit of Study, "Blogging to Share our Passions". Blogs are a reading and writing genre that is fairly new to the world. A blog is one way that readers get information about subjects they are passionate about. Blogging is a way for writers to share their passions with the world. We, your teachers, Mrs. Pintarelli and Mrs. Danahy are passionate about writing. We are also curious about the newer genre, "digital writing". Blogs are a type of digital writing. Listed on the right are some "mentor blogs". Click on each and then write two post-its about things you notice about blogs.
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