My students shared their findings about punctuation marks, from earlier in the week, with each other yesterday. The charts, below, were eye-opening for me since not all of the descriptions about why the authors used them made sense to me. Further, some of the examples didn’t quite match-up. Nonetheless, these were from the first two (of four) immersion days in our Conventions Unit of Study. I’m sure they’ll be experts by time time we finish-up in late April.
And, next week in Workshop (I did next week’s charts last night when I came home from work)…
I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island.
I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010).
I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.
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Thanks for sharing you planning and the kid’s work. We are noticing punctuation in my room, or shall I say the lack of it in their writing sometimes. I’m going to honor you by adapting your ideas into my classroom.
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Thanks for sharing you planning and the kid’s work. We are noticing punctuation in my room, or shall I say the lack of it in their writing sometimes. I’m going to honor you by adapting your ideas into my classroom.
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