Six-Traits for Peer Responding
Peer Responses and RAGS Read-Around Groups (RAGS) or Writing Workshops Here's a version of the Six-Traits Rubric you can adapt to a specific writing assignment and then use during peer-editing sessions
WRITING WORKSHOP – RAGS
Writing Workshops READ-AROUND GROUPS for Writing Workshop In Read Around Group (RAG) sessions, students bring a completed early draft to class and sit in circles of five or six students.…
Resources from Other Educators
RESOURCES TO SUPPORT YOUR TEACHING Scroll down. Adapt, Adopt and Enjoy! From William Younglove: Vocabulary from The Diary of Anne Frank. Definitions and approaches to consider as you consider words…
Assign Alternative Book Reports
With or without using technology, book reports don't have to be same old, same old, same old thing. See the NY Times Learning Network for alternative ways to engage students in…