Creating a Toolbox

Texts and Daybooks Follow-up

Writing into the Day

0 How are you working with the notion of "text" as it is specific to your content area? What mentor texts are you working with? Share what you've collected. Are their questions/ struggles you and your students have with this concept that we can think about together?

0 How are you working with daybooks/ interactive notebooks in your classroom? How's that going? What works well? What are the challenges and struggles?

0 How is literacy functioning as a tool in your class? What is the writing and reading in your class "do-ing" right now? Is this what you want it to "do?" Why or why not?

Welcome to the Wiki

Earning Credits

0 3 hours for attending both workshops0 1 hour for each classroom practice post02 hours for each response to the reading post01 hour for two responses to colleague posts.

0March 21st Spring Conference – 6 hours.

Assessing the Daybook

0Reflective Assessment of Daybooks

0Daybook Reflective Assessments as Unit or Semester Tests

Reflection

0What questions do you have about assessing the daybook?

0What are you thinking about the wiki?0How might a wiki open up possibilities for literacy in

your content area?