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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.
Commenting
The comments section of a blog is really the reason bloggers write - to get feedback from readers and to see how readers react to what they wrote. To be be a blog commenter comes with a lot of responsibility. We talked in our last lesson about netiquette. Good netiquette is an essential skill of blog commenters.
Mrs. Yollis's third grade class in California has excellent netiquette and they have an amazing blog! In today's lesson, we will look at the way her class comments on blog posts and see what we notice about how those comments are written.
http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/knapp-ranch-baseball-opening-day.html
After reading some of Mrs. Yollis's class comments, we will look at a video her students made which shares some of their helpful tips about commenting:
http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-compose-quality-comment.html
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