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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.
Blog Content and Blog words
Bloggers,
Yesterday, we introduced the word "blog" and you explored some blogs and then we discussed what we noticed about blogs.
Today, we will look at our mentor blogs with an eye on the content. What kinds of things do bloggers blog about and what do we notice about the style of writing in blog posts?
Like any genre of writing, blogging comes with its own terms and words. As fourth graders you have become experts at the language of Narrative Writing: strong leads, satisfying endings, zooming in, small moments... So today, Mrs. Pintarelli and Mrs. Danahy will teach you some blog words that we can use as we continue to explore this new genre of writing.
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