Today's demo lesson was AMAZING. It was so complete and so thoughtful. Alexa shared a warm up that demonstrated the use of AAAWWWUUBBIS words to get the ball rolling, then had us participate in AAAWWWUUBBIS searches and scavenger hunts through mentor texts. Finally, we paired up to work on writing a short story about monsters that gave us an opportunity to use AAAWWWUUBBIS. I am going to use this idea like crazy. It can be used to encourage students to write using prepositional phrases, adjective phrases, and noun phrases. It can work with FANBOYS. I just hope I don't over use it. It can be adapted to so many things in the classroom.
I also enjoyed our sacred writing time since it allowed us to go back to a piece we had already written and do Express Lane edits. What a fantastic tool. This can also work as an AAAWWWUUBBIS follow up.
We are all struggling a little this week and feeling overwhelmed since pretty much all of us are trying to still get through the reading. Last week felt good because most of us had finished Lamott's book before the week began. This week, many of us are reading Crafting Digital Writing and Mechanically Inclined in our spare time. If there is one book I wish I had read before the SI, it would be Mechanically Inclined.
I also enjoyed our sacred writing time since it allowed us to go back to a piece we had already written and do Express Lane edits. What a fantastic tool. This can also work as an AAAWWWUUBBIS follow up.
We are all struggling a little this week and feeling overwhelmed since pretty much all of us are trying to still get through the reading. Last week felt good because most of us had finished Lamott's book before the week began. This week, many of us are reading Crafting Digital Writing and Mechanically Inclined in our spare time. If there is one book I wish I had read before the SI, it would be Mechanically Inclined.
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