Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, but please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.
Today in language arts we continued working with the R.A.F.T.S. model for writing responses to literature. The students worked in pairs to discuss the homework they did with the R.A.F.T.S. Thinking Sheet. We then discussed the homework as a whole class, and the students shared the ways in which they thought the Thinking Sheet helped them, or got in their way. We noticed how stopping to think and plan can sometimes be frustrating at first, but helpful in the long run.
Continuing to work in pairs, the students then started to write a draft based on a given writing prompt. They focused on how knowing the role that one is taking on as a writer, knowing one's audience, and understanding the format one is writing in, can affect the voice and word selection of the writer.
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