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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Teaching Organization -- Six Traits
Maybe initially you can use books like ZOOM or anything that demonstration sequence, order and such. Students can discuss why they put photos in a certain order (how organized). I've seen Zoom books dismantled and having students determine what is the correct order. On a smaller scale maybe comic strips would work too (or sections of a graphic novel). Just a few ideas or shots in the dark. Robin S, IN <html><div><FONT face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive" color=#0000cc><FONT color=#33cc66><FONT size=4><FONT face=verdana,arial,helvetica> <DL> <DT>What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. </DT></DL> <P class=author><B><A href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Martina_Horner/";>Martina Horner</A></B>, <I>President of Radcliffe College</I><BR></P><I></I></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></div></html> ----Original Message Follows---- From: Melody Frese <haikumelody@yahoo.com> Reply-To: middle-lit@interversity.org To: <middle-lit@interversity.org> Subject: [middle-lit] Teaching Organization -- Six Traits Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:05:16 -0500 What are some resources you all know of for teaching organization to middle school writers other than graphic organizers? I can see my students' eyes glazing over as I hand them out, but teachers in my district feel they are essential to teaching organization. My students treat them as mildly disguised fill-in-the-blank worksheets. They rarely make the connection between a Venn diagram and a real-world piece of writing. I think I get overall better writing without them. Maybe I'm using them poorly, or maybe there are other ways to teach kids to organize their writing. It probably doesn't help that in my own writing, I have never used a graphic organizer to produce a piece of writing I would be proud of. I'm thinking that articulating my own process would be helpful, but it honestly mostly is just a matter of reading and rereading as I go, learning to "hear" when something sounds logical. I analyze later, after I've written, moving ideas around in a logical order. I guess it seems to me that graphic organizers ask students to use analytical thinking before they've gotten a chance to feel their way through their ideas, using writing to figure out what they have to say. It strikes me as backwards to organize first, but no teacher I know agrees with me, so I could be totally wrong. What are your thoughts? Thanks! Melody --------------------------------------------------- Archives-> http://interversity.org/lists/middle-lit/archives.html _________________________________________________________________ PC Magazine?s 2007 editors? choice for best Web mail?award-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507
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