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.
With the premise, that increasing reading will generally result in increase writing, which in turn will produce quality writing; I thought that some of the techniques outlined in the chapter would be beneficial to increasing student writing skills. It just seems that length in writing is the key, to promote quality writing. Also, it appears that utilizing the Read-Around-Group, (RAG), would be very successful in promoting good writing, because it places the students in a less stressful atmosphere, thus enabling them to relax, learn and try to implement some of the features gained in the group session.
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