Chalkins chapters 5-6 by Hailee Labron https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2 What I believe to be the most important concepts emerging from these chapters. en-us 2019-07-17 01:45:25 UTC 2019-07-17 02:58:55 UTC hello@padlet.com "And this, of course, is the real metaphor for literacy learning. If we adults listen and watch closely, our children will invite us to share their ways of living in the world. And then, become our teachers, showing us what they see and delight in and wonder about and reach toward, then, and only then, will we be able to extend what they know and enrich their ways of knowing." (p.54) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371382563 Wow! What an understanding to grasp. As I reflect, I believe that its has been easier to take this concept on as a parent rather than a teacher and I wonder why Ive ever seperated the two roles and purposes. ]]> 2019-07-17 01:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371382563 "And its true that when we, as teachers, have opportunites to write our own poems and stories and essays, this experience changes us forever as teachers of writing." (p.54) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371383656 I am so glad to be in understanding of this now!]]> 2019-07-17 01:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371383656 "And, as writing teachers, we must let students show us how to teach them." (p.54) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371384887 2019-07-17 02:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371384887 “The most important thing that will happen as we move among our children or as we gather to study their work is this: We will delight in them.” (P.55) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371385581 This was my first ah ha moment of the class from thinking back to my writing experiences and realizing that when I was in early elementary my family took delight in my writing creating my viewing of myself as a writer, and then as I got older I didn’t have educators who offered sincere delight in my writing and I lost interest. ]]> 2019-07-17 02:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371385581 “It is with good reason, therefore, that Don Graves, Jerry Harste, and other colleagues who study writing development have resisted all efforts to create grade-level expectations or to suggest that children’s writing will develop in a fixed order. I respect their views” (p.56-57) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371386167 2019-07-17 02:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371386167 “My goal in doing this is to help all of us be better observers of children. When I wonder in the forest. I find I am a more astute observer of trees if I know something about the categories of trees and the ways in which they tend to be similar and different.” (P.57) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371387066 This phrase resonated with me in two different ways. The first being, that we must understand and know our students in order to teach them effectively. The other being,  we can’t expect students to grow as writers without first showing them its purpose and why we do it, and what it looks like. ]]> 2019-07-17 02:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371387066 “It is adults who have turned writing into an exercise on lined paper, into a matter of rules, lessons, and cautious behavior. Children view it quite differently. For them, it is an exploration with marker and pen.” ( p.59) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371387683 We are creatures of habit. We teach from what we know, and what we’ve experienced. I sometimes see it as a revolving door of how we were taught writing in elementary influences the way we teach it today. ]]> 2019-07-17 02:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371387683 “We can invite our children inside the world of written language if we take our cue from how babies learn to talk” (p.60) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371388469 This is a powerful comparison for me in understanding how to approach beginning writers and readers ]]> 2019-07-17 02:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371388469 “Children learn to write when they see us writing for real purposes. By watching us, children can learn that writing is not only doable, it is also worth doing.” (P.60) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371388739 We must be the desire we wish to see.]]> 2019-07-17 02:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371388739 “And children need to be invited and expected to join us in all of this purposeful writing” (p.60) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371388938 2019-07-17 02:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371388938 “The important thing is that Miles regards his pens and papers as a necessary to his life.” (P.61) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371389456 This is the intention of the writers note book and thinking of it as a necessary tool in our lives.]]> 2019-07-17 02:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371389456 “In our eagerness to see writing on the children’s papers” “It is very helpful if we can focus on what children are doing rather than on what we wish they would do.” (P.66) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371390349 This is an important to keep in mind so that we aren’t disregarding our students as writers in any stage ]]> 2019-07-17 02:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371390349 “The face that we watch and celebrate what children can do doesn’t mean that we necessarily maintain a hands off policy when our children write. It does mean that our teaching is in response to what children do.” (P.68) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371390950 I highlighted and starred this! Sometimes it’s hard for me to give students freedom and choice with out impeding on it just because I didn’t understand it where crossing the line was. Now I see how it can be THIS and THAT by allowing students freedom to work inside of the structure we lay out. ]]> 2019-07-17 02:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371390950 “Will be treated with the respect we give to a baby’s earliest words.” (P.69) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391324 2019-07-17 02:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391324 “Latrice believes her writing has power in the world because her teacher empowers her writing and that of her classmates” (p.69) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391481 2019-07-17 02:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391481 “When we respect children’s early writing, we create a mood of appreciation in the classroom.” (P.70) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391725 2019-07-17 02:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391725 “I want teachers to delight in what youngsters do and to respond in real ways to what they are trying to do. I want teachers to have a wonderful time watching and admiring and working with young writers.”(p.70) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391981 2019-07-17 02:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371391981 “Miles writes to dream, to plan, to envision, to map, to learn, and to play.” (P.77) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371392267 This is the purpose of teaching students to write!!]]> 2019-07-17 02:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371392267 “Writing for us is part of living and loving.” ( p.77) haileel https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371392412 2019-07-17 02:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/haileel/uw4c037a75f2/wish/371392412