Shared Journal
These student authors use the research-based Shared Journal (Taylor, Branscombe, Burcham & Kabdm, 2011) process to foster development and understanding of their own writing talents, and share social and cultural backgrounds (LE1). Through participation in this process, children will learn to use interactive talk as a vehicle to understand and record personal events from the life experiences of other students. Stories will be told orally and then reconstructed by student authors who will eventually move toward a higher ordered thinking process of reflecting and relating to the stories of others. They may retell the storyteller’s tale with additions from their own life stories. In this manner, students will learn to consider the perspectives of others while improving their skills as authors.
Enjoy,
Dr. Lester
ELAGSE5W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. a. Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examplesrelated to the topic.
c. Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses(e.g., in contrast, especially).
d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.
ELAGSE5W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
b. Use narrative techniques,such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of charactersto situations.
c. Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clausesto manage the sequence of events.
d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences
ELAGSE5W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectationsfor writing types are defined in Standards 1–3 above.)
ELAGSE5W5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventionsshould demonstrate command of Language Standards 1–3 up to and including grade 5.) ELAGSE5W6: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting