Helping Struggling Writers

Little engages writers than having a global audience leaving comments. Have you considered encouraging your writers publishing online via blog? If you would like to do this in the East Central ISD, don't hesitate to make contact! -Miguel (@mguhlin)

Source: Edutopia

Some key points quoted from the Edutopia article:

• Introduce blogging as part of their writing practice. In this way, students are still writing, but the audience is authentic and real. Have them write for their peers, classmates, and other classrooms. Have them collaborate with each other.
• Check for students' understanding of the content to make sure that they're prepared to write about it. Strategies to use:
• Ask the 5 W questions (plus one H).
• Ask them for their opinion.
• Schedule time for students to share their work with their peers and to get feedback from each other. Here, a teacher's role is to facilitate peer-to-peer feedback by providing students with guiding questions to ask and elements to look for in each other's work. 

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