Blogging to Become Better Writers!

Can you understand this?

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M4C?

Look here to find out more about Text Speak and Net Lingo... the language some teens use to communicate digitally.

We want students to improve their writing through blogging- clear expectations will facilitate their progress.

1. Utilize Marzano's High Yield Strategies in the tasks or "posts" you create for your students.
2. Provide sentence stems or model sentences for students to work from.

• Sentence Starters for Reader Response
• Example of an ESL Sentence Starter Activity
• Main Idea Sentence Starters
• Sentence Starters for Beginning Writers
• Question and Sentence Stems for Reflection on Learning
• Example of students responding to each others writing with a system
  

Utilize the best practices you use in the classroom- just take them from paper to a blog!

1. Choose a sentence stem to get you started, or create your own sentences reflecting on what you have learned or observed today in class. Please include a minimum of 2 sentences. Please use proper spelling, conventions and grammar.
Comments could include:
What kind of writing will you focus on with your blog?
A sample post you would ask your students to respond to