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Download full textWollman-Bonilla, Julie – 2003
This lesson introduces Family Message Journals, a tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and learn. First and second graders are led into composing through demonstration, guided writing, and finally independent writing of messages that they will bring home for family to read and write a reply. During the three…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Lesson Plans, Parent Participation, Primary Education
Goularte, Renee – 2002
After reading self-selected books, students respond to reading in a journal and talk about their books daily in small, heterogeneous groups. The teacher guides and assesses students work by rotating among the groups, offering suggested response prompts and writing with them in their dialogue journals. During five 30-40 minute sessions, students…
Descriptors: Cues, Evaluation Methods, Journal Writing, Lesson Plans
Wollman-Bonilla, Julie – 2003
Family Message Journals are tools for learning, thinking, and self-expression. By writing several messages with varied purposes, students begin to experience that journal writing can serve many purposes. It can help them remember; make sense of new information and ideas; and recognize, develop, and share personal thoughts and reactions. During…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking, Evaluation Methods, Family Communication
