Setting Goals with Young Writers

Setting short and long-term goals with students is very valuable.  Here is a blog from Two Reflective Teachers on setting daily writing goals with 2nd grade students:

Setting Goals with Young Writers

I am finally getting around to adding the Presentation from October 24 on Teaching Beyond the Text.  The presentation has some links to Character trait lists, CCSS reading checklists, and Questions to use during guided reading lessons.

Link to K-4 Teaching Beyond the Text Presentation

 

Mentor Texts for Writing Craft

Thanks again for a great participation during the writing professional development on Friday.

Here is the link to the Google Doc with the List of Mentor Text that has been started.
One of the teachers on the writing committee shared this book with me and now I don't want to return it, but I will!  I need to order this book!  It provides many great examples of books to use to teach writing skills and craft. Before I return the book, I will try to highlight a few of my favorites!

Guided Reading- Comprehension Prompting Questions

Guided Reading- Prompting Questions

This is a link to a set of prompting questions at each guided reading level.  It provides questions that align with the text complexity for each book level in each of the strategy areas:

Thinking Within the Text

Thinking Beyond the Text

Thinking About the Text

Here is an example for a Level K Text:

Reading Response Strategies

I just came across a gem of a book, called- Readers Writing- Lessons for Responding to Narrative and Informational Text by Elizabeth Hall.  I have been previewing the book on-line at the link above.  It has some great ways to incorporate reading response strategies.  She includes easy to use language and student examples, all using the Gradual Release format of: Name it, Why Do It?, Model It, Try It, and Share It.  I can't wait to dig into the book further!