Comments on: Reading Journals

By: Melissa B.

Melissa B. — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:40:45 +0000

Hi!
I love this! I teach kids with learning disabilities, and would love to share this with them. Could you please email me the pages, because when I try to print them.. they do not work!

Thank You so Much!

Melissa

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:31:19 +0000

I can’t seem to get that first link (reading journal) to work..would you mind sending me an e-mail with it?
Thanks!
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By: Belinda

Belinda — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:46:46 +0000

Thanks for this Jimmie. We are making this mini office as our co-op activity today. We won't make it free standing but rather as part of a writing prompt file the kids have. I'm working with 10-16year olds. I like the idea of mini offices as it teaches the kids to use reference material. Thanks for the print out. .-= Belinda´s last blog ..Restoring the Heart, Mind and Soul of Christmas =-.

By: Tara Erwin

Tara Erwin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:55:44 +0000

Thanks so much for this post! I teach resource classes and this is just what I was needing for my 4th & 5th grade students.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:56:51 +0000

Another fabulous idea Jimmie! I’m gonna have to use this one too!! Thank you so much for sharing with us all. You are such an inspiration, it’s great to be able to come here and glean new ideas, (as well as to appreciate the hard work Sprite is doing.)
I too haven noticed my dd re-tells things verbatim…so I guess that’s a good thing, as long as eventually she is able to put things into her own words.
Keep up the great work!!

By: Angi

Angi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:43:42 +0000

Thanks, once again, for sharing your wisdom with us! .-= Angi´s last blog ..PREPARING FOR MONDAY =-.

By: BlessedMomma

BlessedMomma — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:25:14 +0000

Great idea! I have been looking for a way to link all the reading my children do for enjoyment to school. This will work wonderfully and help them towards indepent study. I was wondering if you could post what curriculum you are using this year? Also, what sort of schedule do you follow for the the day/week during the school year? .-= BlessedMomma´s last blog ..My Children Started School Early Without Me! =-.

By: Darla

Darla — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:20:21 +0000

This is what I’ve been needing in my personal reading to take it to the next step.

By: Sydni Bambeg

Sydni Bambeg — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:57:11 +0000

Great post. I sent you an e-mail, but it might go to your junk mail–My computer wouldn’t let me send it directly from your blog. Anyway, I think we sent you a flat traveler once, and we were so surprised to find your blog several years later! I hope you can get our e-mail, but in the meantime, I love your blog!

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:33:18 +0000

to Loni, Sarah, Melissa, and Kris — You’re welcome! I’m glad it’s helpful to you.

to Beth — I try to do one writing assignment per week (but we don’t always get to it). That would be something that goes through the steps of the writing process and ends up as a polished, proofread document. But she does some type of writing daily whether it’s in her journal or on a notebooking page or in a minibook. I’d say it’s about one to two pages of writing per day.

to Martha — [smile] You know, since I’ve gotten this fancy new blog, I’ve been able to do so much HERE that I’ve not felt the need to build things at Squidoo. I probably will make more lenses in the future, but blogging is fun again!

to Julie — Absolutely! We never dog-ear books.

to Dee — I guess it’s the verbatim aspect that’s bothering you? They aren’t rewording it? Actually, it’s okay to retell verbatim. If they are remembering all those details, I think it’s fine. That’s the main think you want them to glean — the facts that you read. Thinking onward with those facts will slowly develop. Maybe these questions in the reading journal prompts can help that along. But if they are narrating lots of details, I’d say they’re doing quite well!