I assign quick writes every morning when my students come into my classroom. The book states, "Quick Writes are very short writing tasks that can be integrated frequently into classroom instruction (i.e., at least two or three times per week)" ( Sedita, 2023. p. 8).They must draw a picture about what my question of the day is. I ask questions about them, and an example would be, what is your favorite movie? I have started to have them label their pictures. In kindergarten I do not assign content learning tasks because they are just learning how to write. I do not assign formal writing tasks in general, but I do have them do an information writing assignment that has more than one page. There is only one sentence per page.

One principle I would like to use more often would be the gradual release of responsibility to my students when I am teaching a skill. I would show them how to do the skill first. As a group we would do it together. They would then have to do it on their own. I want them to be more independent.

Another principle I would like to use more often would be differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all my students. Sometimes I forget to break my assignment into parts, where all my students can understand, then I teach to the whole group.

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One skill that I think would be beneficial for kindergarten would be to break a writing task into smaller and more manageable parts. When kindergarteners are faced with a big job to do they tend to shut down and not do it. They forget how to be independent thinkers. When they have to write in smaller parts, they do not feel overwhelmed.

Gayla Farmer

EDRL 442

Professor Kim Noah

April 21, 2024

2.  There were many different writing activities in The Writing Rope.  One of the activities I really liked was the sentence scramble.  I would use this activity in my classroom because I thin it will help the students understand the syntax of sentences.  The more they practice with this, they will become great writers.  The second activity I liked was teaching paragraph structure by using color coding.  Students take a green highlighter and highlight the topic sentence.  This is the first sentence.  The last sentence will be the concluding sentence and it will be highlighted in red.  The sentences in the middle are the supporting sentences.  This method teaches students how to organize their paragraphs.   I will use this in my classroom because I feel like it is important to train the students to be able to identify different parts of a paragraph.  This will help them to be better writers (sedita, 2023).

1.  S- One goal I set for myself is to take what I learned in this class and teach it in my classroom

     M-I will know I have accomplished it when I see how my students are writing and if they are using the strategies from this class,  I will know I achieved my goal.

      A-The goal can be accomplished if I make sure my students are writing and using the strategies I have taught them that I learned from this class

       R-This goal does seem worthwhile because I will help students become great writers.

       T- I can accomplish this goal starting right now in the class that I am teaching and continue every year.

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