Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
I highly recommend doing a Punctuation Study a la Katie Wood Ray. I have used it with all ages and have had the best results of anything else I have ever tried. The students need to actually experience why punctuation is so important. They need to see that the author (them) really has an obligation to show the reader exactly how to read the text infront of them. Only then do they take charge of their own writing. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.comwrote: My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive -- *Nancy Hagerty **Reading Recovery/Literacy Support* *Bartlett Elementary* *Room B-8* *248-573-2521* hager...@slcs.us ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
Yes, I agree totally with this Sally On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:53 AM, NANCY HAGERTY wrote: I highly recommend doing a Punctuation Study a la Katie Wood Ray. I have used it with all ages and have had the best results of anything else I have ever tried. The students need to actually experience why punctuation is so important. They need to see that the author (them) really has an obligation to show the reader exactly how to read the text infront of them. Only then do they take charge of their own writing. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.comwrote: My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive -- *Nancy Hagerty **Reading Recovery/Literacy Support* *Bartlett Elementary* *Room B-8* *248-573-2521* hager...@slcs.us ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
Hi from Australia! We stole a fabulous idea from the UK - 'Kung Fu Punctuation'. Our Years 2- 4 'Kung Fu' their work and they love it. It's kinaesthetic and a lot of fun. The Punctuation Pyramids work as reminders for the children of the types of punctuation available to them. It's not for every teacher, you have to be open to being a little bit silly with your students. Our Year 2 teacher puts on her Kung Fu robe, plays a snippet of 'Kung Fu Fighting' and the whole class practices punctuating a paragraph using their Kung Fu moves... and yes, it does translate into their writing. There are a few different versions around, we allowed our students to come up with the moves to suit each punctuation mark. Google it if you're interested, there's quite a bit out there on the net. Rachael -Original Message- From: Mosaic [mailto:mosaic-bounces+rachael.bryant=holysaviour.nsw.edu.au@literacyworksho p.org] On Behalf Of mosaic-requ...@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2012 7:00 AM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 76, Issue 4 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.or g or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mosaic-requ...@literacyworkshop.org You can reach the person managing the list at mosaic-ow...@literacyworkshop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Mosaic digest... Today's Topics: 1. Writing Punctuation (evelia cadet) 2. Re: Writing Punctuation (Sally Thomas) 3. Re: Writing Punctuation (Lori D) 4. Re: Writing Punctuation (Tracy Sachs) 5. Re: Writing Punctuation (Deborah Hopp) 6. Re: Common Core Non-Fiction (Rachel Kimboko) 7. Bibliotherapy for Transitions (Meghan Formel) 8. Re: Bibliotherapy for Transitions (Deborah Hopp) 9. Re: Bibliotherapy for Transitions (Mena) 10. Re: Writing Punctuation (NANCY HAGERTY) 11. Re: Writing Punctuation (Sally Thomas) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 15:58:57 -0600 From: evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.com To: Mosaic Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation Message-ID: blu402-eas323c668784156bb2c05849caa...@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:47:08 -0800 From: Sally Thomas sally.thom...@verizon.net To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation Message-ID: cf542ef6-59a0-4822-bd71-c86e89e55...@verizon.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii an oldie but goodie strategy is to have kids read their piece's from the end backwards. So read what they think is the last sentence. use a slash or whatever but does it make sense the way you read it? then the next to the last sentence. Of course they won't know exactly where the sentence starts anymore than where it ends but it is experimenting till they get it as they want it. This breaks up that ongoing flow of meaning and kind of focuses their understanding on JUST the sentence. I think we lose sight of the fact that it is just not that easy to do! To wit, I work on it all the way thru graduate students. Clauses of all kinds have subjects and verbs so that determination alone doesn't do the trick. So I try to help the kids see they are the owners of their writing and need to work with it till it communicates clearly what they want. AND unless they actually have some ownership, none of this works very well. So it cannot all be assignments. I read a great great chapter in a book/article that I wish I could find now. But it was a plea that knowing where to put periods, e.g. a complete thought or idea, is a HUGE Sally On Dec 8, 2012, at 1:58 PM, evelia cadet wrote: My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
Is there a certain book that use from Katie Wood Ray or do I just do a search and she has activities... Jennifer Joyner Bugg Elementary-4th Grade jjoyn...@wcpss.net (919)250-4750 -Mosaic mosaic-bounces+jjoyner1=wcpss@literacyworkshop.org wrote: - To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org From: NANCY HAGERTY Sent by: Mosaic Date: 12/10/2012 08:53AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation I highly recommend doing a Punctuation Study a la Katie Wood Ray. I have used it with all ages and have had the best results of anything else I have ever tried. The students need to actually experience why punctuation is so important. They need to see that the author (them) really has an obligation to show the reader exactly how to read the text infront of them. Only then do they take charge of their own writing. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.comwrote: My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive -- *Nancy Hagerty **Reading Recovery/Literacy Support* *Bartlett Elementary* *Room B-8* *248-573-2521* hager...@slcs.us ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
Study Driven, by Katie Wood Ray. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jennifer Quinett Joyner jjoyn...@wcpss.net wrote: Is there a certain book that use from Katie Wood Ray or do I just do a search and she has activities... Jennifer Joyner Bugg Elementary-4th Grade jjoyn...@wcpss.net (919)250-4750 -Mosaic mosaic-bounces+jjoyner1=wcpss@literacyworkshop.org wrote: - To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org From: NANCY HAGERTY Sent by: Mosaic Date: 12/10/2012 08:53AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation I highly recommend doing a Punctuation Study a la Katie Wood Ray. I have used it with all ages and have had the best results of anything else I have ever tried. The students need to actually experience why punctuation is so important. They need to see that the author (them) really has an obligation to show the reader exactly how to read the text infront of them. Only then do they take charge of their own writing. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.com wrote: My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive -- *Nancy Hagerty **Reading Recovery/Literacy Support* *Bartlett Elementary* *Room B-8* *248-573-2521* hager...@slcs.us ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive -- *Nancy Hagerty **Reading Recovery/Literacy Support* *Bartlett Elementary* *Room B-8* *248-573-2521* hager...@slcs.us ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
Using a rubric for them to self check their drafts and then have peer editing also. Writing conferences are a way for them to learn. When my first graders forgot their punctuation, I would have them fix it while they were in a writing conference with me. Maybe you could do a mini lesson with a paragraph with no periods and have them put them in as a whole group. You could go on a detective missing periods hunt and make it a competition. I'm sure 4th grade would love that! Give them many opportunities for free writing, such as journals even if it is for homework and then have them fix each others work. Remind them true writing is a process. -Original Message- From: Lori D loritheteac...@hotmail.com To: mosaic mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Sat, Dec 8, 2012 8:33 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation Real aloud Punctuation Takes a Vacation. Model how to insert punctuation correctly on an overhead projector or document camera with a colorful marker (preferably not red). When it's time for a period, have them make put out their pointer finger like they are popping a bubble and have them say pop. It is auditory, visual and kinesthetic. Eventually, give them thinking markers - flair pens for them to insert their punctuation... let the writing begin!Lori From: cadeteve...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 15:58:57 -0600 To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
an oldie but goodie strategy is to have kids read their piece's from the end backwards. So read what they think is the last sentence. use a slash or whatever but does it make sense the way you read it? then the next to the last sentence. Of course they won't know exactly where the sentence starts anymore than where it ends but it is experimenting till they get it as they want it. This breaks up that ongoing flow of meaning and kind of focuses their understanding on JUST the sentence. I think we lose sight of the fact that it is just not that easy to do! To wit, I work on it all the way thru graduate students. Clauses of all kinds have subjects and verbs so that determination alone doesn't do the trick. So I try to help the kids see they are the owners of their writing and need to work with it till it communicates clearly what they want. AND unless they actually have some ownership, none of this works very well. So it cannot all be assignments. I read a great great chapter in a book/article that I wish I could find now. But it was a plea that knowing where to put periods, e.g. a complete thought or idea, is a HUGE Sally On Dec 8, 2012, at 1:58 PM, evelia cadet wrote: My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
I've taught first and second grade. Most students, if they read what they wrote out loud to someone else, and you teach them to listen where they pause and their voice goes down, they can get it. You have to model it first. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:58 PM, evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.comwrote: My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
Re: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation
Real aloud Punctuation Takes a Vacation. Model how to insert punctuation correctly on an overhead projector or document camera with a colorful marker (preferably not red). When it's time for a period, have them make put out their pointer finger like they are popping a bubble and have them say pop. It is auditory, visual and kinesthetic. Eventually, give them thinking markers - flair pens for them to insert their punctuation... let the writing begin!Lori From: cadeteve...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 15:58:57 -0600 To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Writing Punctuation My 4th grade students are not ending their sentences with a period. It's like they don't know when a sentence ends. This is my first year teaching writing. I honestly don't know how to help them recognize when to add a period. Any ideas would be appreciated. In few months they will be composing two pieces of writing for the state exam. It is a desperate situation. Thank you in advance. Evelia Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
