Insights+About+Journals+&+Journaling

=Insights About Journals & Journaling =

==== This wiki page features our ideas about journals and journaling practices and strategies in the middle grades classroom--what we know in general, what the literature says, what we're seeing in the field, and what we've experienced ourselves as students. ====

==== **//Directions://** As indicated in class and on prep sheets, please contribute to the following categories below (each is a link to a separate wiki page where you can add your ideas). Category 2 is required as indicated on the prep sheets (please see the specific directions at the top of that category and contribute to it accordingly). You are welcome to draw on personal experiences as well as any of your reading for this or other education classes. For all of your entries, please put your name in parentheses. We will contribute the categories below over the next 2 weeks. Linked here is also a short resource from the Rief text explaining how she has students use a journal as a Reader's-Writer's Log. ====


 * ====**Rief's Reader's-Writer's Log Instructions** - [[file:Rief_R-W_Log_HO.pdf]]====

** 2. What Journal Articles and Experts in the Field Have to Tell Us About Journals and Journaling (required) **

 * 3. What We're Seeing in the Field with regard to Journals and Journaling **


 * 4. What We Have Experienced Ourselves with regard to Journals and Journaling**


 * 5. Possible Purposes of Journals and Journaling **


 * 6. Possible Formats for Journals and Journaling**


 * 7. Other Observations, Questions, Comments regarding Journals and Journaling**