Blogs

Students are getting ready to blog! The main purpose of our blogs: to create a conversation about our writing. One of the best ways to do this is to use excellent comments.

To practice, students created paper blogs about a topic they know a great deal about, like one eighth grader who loves crayons. The next day in class, they practiced writing comments that went beyond "Awesome!" or "Nice job!" They stated something they could relate to or learn from a blog post and asked a question. As you can see, another student did a great job sharing what she learned about crayons and asking for more information.

Students will use the same types of comments on their actual blogs. Because they did such good work, their blogs are hanging on the walls of my classroom and in the middle school hall!

What do you think? Don't they look good?