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| Assignment Books
“I use assignment books not only to remind students of their homework and test dates, but also to help parents keep abreast of what is going on in their child's classroom. Each student receives a new ... | (by users) |
| Beginning of Class Behavior
I have classes that are extremely talkative because they do not want to work. I have found that keeping a journal helps get a class on task immediately. The students know that they are to be writing i... | (by 0 users) |
| Color Coding Journals
At the beginning of the school year I color code my students' journals by putting a red, yellow, green, blue or purple sticker on the front of each journal. Then every Monday for the rest of the schoo... | (by 0 users) |
| Improving Literacy
One of our school-wide goals last year (we are a middle school of grades 6, 7, and 8) was to improve reading scores. We had 13-year-old students who were reading at the second and third grade levels; ... | (by 0 users) |
| Journaling
Once a week each of my students write to me in our dialogue journals. They can ask or tell me anything. They write in a marble copy book that is kept in their desks. I reply after school on the same d... | (by 0 users) |
| Journaling about Bear
I purchase a stuffed bear and parent volunteers make take-home cloth bags for Bear. Students take Bear for one night and are told to keep Bear safe, clean, and fed pretend bear food. A writing journal... | (by users) |
| Kindergarten Journaling
Kindergarten journal writing can be a challenge! To stimulate both interest and writing skills, I have my students build the structure of their own design during center time. Then I have them draw the... | (by 0 users) |
| Love-Hate Journaling
This retired teacher always had a love-hate relationship with student journals. They were time consuming but valuable teaching tools. With a list of imaginative writing prompts, she made the most out of them. | (by 0 users) |
| Morning Journaling - High School
Every day as students come into the room, they immediately attend to writing a journal entry that is on the overhead projector. One student in each class has the responsibility of distributing and col... | (by 0 users) |
| Morning Journaling - Kindergarten
I manage the morning rush of information by having my students do their journals first thing in the morning, after signing in. This works really well, we always have time for journaling, and are never... | (by 0 users) |
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