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For Karen: When I was a kid, the part I had the most fun with - and which helped me organize - was the Table of Contents. I loved that part. I think I should employ something like this for high school students: "If your paper were going to be a book, what would be the titles of each "chapter" or paragraph?" Maybe another demo lesson...

- Eileen

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Love darts huh....I will never forget it! :) 

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Love darts huh....I will never forget it! :) 

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I can't believe that this isn't the way every teacher teaches!

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Great job, Karen!  I love how you are so passionate about advocating for student choice!  Great connection between writing and reading standards!  Thank you!

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Great job, Karen!  I love how you are so passionate about advocating for student choice!  Great connection between writing and reading standards!  Thank you!

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Kathy

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These informational picture books were my life blood as a child. So excellent to see you leverage student interest to develop specialized vocab and let students share what they know. This allows all students to show their mastery, and elevate past the 2nd grade standard words to become mini-experts. Love darts, the different types of beam maneuvers. All very surprising and impressive!

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If I had a child, I'd want her/him to be in your class! You've blended specific requirements with lots of choice to create interest and a sense of ownership. I can see modifying your templates for older students with learning challenges as a way to help them with organization in other types of expository writing. For example, creating a glossary would help students define terms for a paper. This assignment could be the RD of an essay or research paper.
Brooke : )

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Your students are so lucky! You really drove home the importance of student choice, and it's obvious that you delight in your children and their work. Your workshop definitely inspired me to do something more like this with my smaller scholars. THANK YOU!
-Bob

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This can be done even with older students. They would have fun and it would also further the student's learning.

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Karen, in addition to genre awareness, I love the reader awareness cultivated in this project. Most of all, I appreciate the clear purpose writers have and the fact that they OWN this writing. Such a far cry from filling in simple paragraph structures because they have to... I also appreciated the scholarly context you provided.

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Karen, in addition to genre awareness, I love the reader awareness cultivated in this project. Most of all, I appreciate the clear purpose writers have and the fact that they OWN this writing. Such a far cry from filling in simple paragraph structures because they have to... I also appreciated the scholarly context you provided.

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-Lisa

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I love this! Even though I teach high school, I love that the idea of choice can be applied to all grades. It's the structure that is important. I really liked the way that you broke down each individual aspect of the book and had students working on it one piece at a time.

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I will never look at snails the same. But really, great way to teach writing and familiarity with non-fiction texts! I could see doing this with middle schoolers...having them examine how a text is written and then doing their own on a topic not covered in the book or that they feel should be covered.  Thank you!

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Wow! That was so amazing Karen, I am definitely going to use this all year long, once taught the kids are going to LOVE doing their own books after! Thank you so much! Amanda

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Wow! That was so amazing Karen, I am definitely going to use this all year long, once taught the kids are going to LOVE doing their own books after! Thank you so much! Amanda

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Karen, I love the examples from multiple sources from actual books they get to look through. I loved how you modeled your personal examples throughout. I also loved that you had them write 4 different types of hooks and then after experiencing that had them choose their favorite one! Way to go! Love!

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Karen, this was so fun and reminds us what students of all levels are capable of. I love how this teaches genre and is accessible to students with different needs. Thank you!

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Karen, this was so fun and reminds us what students of all levels are capable of. I love how this teaches genre and is accessible to students with different needs. Thank you!

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-Daina

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Love the real applications of this project!

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Love the real applications of this project!

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Great demo, Karen. An aha moment I had was that so much of real world informational writing has headings and categories and is not in an essay format with transitions between paragraphs. This project was inspired by real books and gives kids so much voice and choice. Loved it.

-Jamie

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This work affirms students as knowledgeable writers and creators. I'm pretty sure that identity will stay with them for a long time! -Kelly

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This is great! I know you teach 2nd, but I feel like this is something I can easily tweak for 7th grade! I can't wait to do this. I can play up the ownership of this- They are the authors of a whole books.