[LIT] role modeling

[CAG]

I write an example of something I am going to ask the students write ahead 
of time, usually just a rough draft - sometimes with my explaining how / why 
I made changes for the next draft - usually just the beginnings (a paragraph 
or 2 or 3) are enough to show the kids the gist of what I'm teaching them. 
I'll read that to them, or show them on the overhead as I read so they can 
see the changes.

I also share my writer's notebook ideas as they come to me.

I can't think of too many specifics without looking back in my plan book 
from last year, but things like leads, poetry, personal narrative, a modeled 
Christmas project come to mind.

Cathy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill IVEY" <bivey at sbschool.org>
To: <lit at literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: [LIT] role modeling


> Hi!
>
> I believe that, alongside the one-on-one and group work we do with our
> students, role modeling behaviors we want them to emulate can be a
> powerful teaching technique. This isn't all that difficult to do with
> reading - but I find it more difficult with writing. What with everything
> else going on when the kids are writing, I only very rarely have a minute
> to sit down and write alongside them (as Nancie Atwell describes in her
> work). I'm wondering how you all go about role modeling yourselves as
> writers for your students. Thanks!
>
> Take care,
> Bill Ivey
> Stoneleigh-Burnham School
>
>
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