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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, March 10, 2011

Revising Blog Posts Part 2

Blog posts need to include evidence of good writing craft just as any other piece of writing does and so with this in mind, we decided to focus students in on revising their narrative mini stories.



Drawing on all our 4th graders know about narrative structure was not hard. Our students are experts at this point on telling their story slowly, on adding details and zooming in on small moments, on stretching their writing so the reader can feel emotion and empathize. For this revision lesson, we simply needed to review what students already knew so well and so inherently about writing stories and then teach them how to use storytelling as an effective tool for revising blog posts. The author of this post, "Animals" revised her writing to include a mini story that "shows not tells" about an experience with an abandoned puppy.

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