"J.... come on up to my table, it is your day to blog!" I call one of my students over. A smile appears on their face. They quickly shuffle over and sit right next to me. They get started typing right away. After some time, it differs for each student, they say, "Ms. Emrich, I'm done!".
I scoot close to them and move the iPad so that we can both see it. I ask them to read it aloud to me. As they are reading, they naturally start catching their mistakes. If they do not catch something like a capital letter, or misspelled word I will stop them and discuss the error with them. I love that I have one on one time to conference with the student about their writing. It is not forced. They genuinely want to hear my feedback and are motivated to make their post (writing) better. When we finish reading through it once to edit, I ask them if they introduced and concluded their blog post properly. They seem to naturally introduce their writing, but forget to end it. We discuss different ways they can conclude their post. I think this has been sticking with the student. They have been remembering to introduce and conclude their writing in class. I remind them they can add in some figurative language to help describe things in their post. I help them to finalize it. Before you know it, they click PUBLISH! I show them what it looks like on our website and remind them to show their parents at home and comment on others. I think everyone should be blogging with their students and/or blogging themselves. It is such a reflective experience, I see no negatives. Next year, I will definitely be starting a class blog earlier and hope you do too! *Below is our class sign up page for May. We signed up this week and every single one of my students is thrilled to be continuing the blog. They can't wait to post again!
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