March 28, 2014

Slice of Life | Day 28



Back in 2011, the Two Writing Teachers introduced me to chartchums. It is a blog that has helped me countless times. The teaching and visuals, shared by Marjorie Martinelli & Kristine Mraz, are superb!

A couple years ago in grade 4, I made the above chart for my students. The idea came straight from guest teacher, Alyssa Newman, on chartchums. For my class, I changed the word "post-its" to "thinkmarks" which was something I was using from  Aimee Buckner's "Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook".

I'm grateful for what I learn from other teachers.




7 comments:

  1. I love this idea. Even for high school kids, it could get them in the mindset of commenting on work with emoticons and things like that. More stuff like that = more engagement!

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  2. The ladies at ChartChums are amazing - so creative and clever about using visuals to make kid think.

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  3. Chartchums are the best!

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  4. Enjoyed the "Think Marks." I like to write along side my grandchildren after my retirement from teaching writing workshop--WW saved my teaching life and me! Thanks for reading a post of mine.

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    1. Thank you! ...How wonderful that you write along side your grandchildren!

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