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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.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Lesson 1

Wow. We are impressed at how thoughtful our budding bloggers were today. Mrs. Pintarelli began the lesson by asking students "who has heard of a blog?" Several students had heard the term and almost everyone was cheering and smiling at the thought of becoming a blogger.
Mrs. Pintarelli asked, "why are you all so excited about blogging?"
"What is it about blogging?", Mrs Danahy replied, "that has every student in here smiling and almost jumping out of their seats". One student articulated it well. "In a blog", he began, "you own it... it's yours."
Here is the chart we made in the beginning of the lesson. 
After talking about what we know about blogs students explored the "mentor blogs" listed on the sidebar. Students noticed many things. Here is the chart we made at the end of the lesson:
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    Sounds like a great unit! Can't wait to read the writing you all publish on your blog! :) Mrs. Fleming

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  2. B. F. Gibbs Library Media CenterJanuary 11, 2011 at 5:46 AM

    This is awesome! I am so excited to read your posts!

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