Chapter 4 - Using Real World Models

Several ideas for real world writing are presented in Chapter 4 from restaurant reviews to magazines.  Each person should post one reaction to Chapter 4:

By April 13, 2012

• What ideas did you get from this chapter for using real-world writing in your classroom?  Is there a particular idea you might integrate in your own class?  Did the chapter serve as a springboard for what you might try?

By April 20, 2012

• Post a reaction to each comment (there are 7 members in our group), so you will be commenting on each person's post.

Welcome to Differentiated Supervision Fall 2011

Since our topic this year will be about teaching adolescent writers, I thought we should use a format that your students might use in the classroom.  When considering  my knowledge base  for using blogs in the classroom, well if 5 means "comfortable with technology" and 1 "clueless," I am probably at 2.  How about you?  Are you using blogs in the classroom to encourage student writing?  Would you consider using blogs? Why? Why not?

Lucky for us, Natalie Fetterman, is in our study group, and she might be the "guru" for technology in the classroom.