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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.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Writing Blog Posts

Today our bloggers were bursting with excitement to finally write a blog post "on line". For first drafts, I am happy with how they turned out. The content meets my goals -  idea based, "mini essays". Now, as the writing process goes, we will move into the revision phase.  Our bloggers know what a blog post is, they know how to collect ideas and plan for blog posts and now they must learn how to revise a blog post.

As they finished up their blog posts today, we allowed them to comment on each other's posts. I notice they seem to have forgotten what a comment is supposed to be like and so we will have to teach them to revise blog comments tomorrow too. Here are two first drafts that will hopefully be revised tomorrow.


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