After a particularly bad 2007, lawyer John Kralik decided to start 2008 with a serious New Year’s resolution: to be thankful for the good things and people in his life. So he spent the next year writing one thank you note for each day — to family, friends, co-workers, even the barista at his local Starbucks. Those notes make up his new book, 365 Thank Yous: The Year A Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life. Click Here to LISTEN to the 6 minute story and read John’s Ten Tips for Writing the Perfect Thank You Note. I find his project fascinating!
Download the documents in a .zip format below
Grade 3 Documents
Grade 5 Documents
Thank you to Julie Carney, Claire Farrell, and all their colleagues at Austell Primary for sharing their commentary sheets and strategy labels that they use with their guided reading groups. The labels are so fantastic, they could be used while giving commentary at anytime. Thanks for sharing!
You can download the files in a .zip format here.
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Cobb County Writing Fair
Please remind all of the upcoming Writing Fair, which:
* encourages students at each local school to write in any genre and to follow the complete writing process to publish their writing;
* involves a team in judging student writing submitted at the local school to identify one winner per grade level;
* receives school winners from each participating school which are sent to the County (1 entry per grade level, K – 5) for a second judging;
* identifies one winner from each grade level K – 12 to be submitted for competition in the state-level Georgia Young Authors Writing Competition.
An excellent way to showcase your hard work and the writing proficiency of your students is to enter the Cobb County School District Writing Fair. The 2010-11 Cobb County Writing Fair Brochure and Pamphlet detailing guidelines, the district scoring rubric, and entry form are attached. Please distribute this information to the appropriate instructional leaders to coordinate the local school writing fair competition. Please read and follow the published directions carefully and submit one entry per grade level to the county office, Curriculum and Instruction, attention Deborah Chester, on or before March 11, 2011. A completed entry form must accompany each entry (see attached). Entries that are received on or before the due date will be judged to determine district level winners.
CCSD Writing Fair Brochure 2010-11
CCSD Writing Fair Entry Form
Writing Fair Pamphlet 2010-11
Writing Fair Top Ten for Curr Briefings and ELA Blog 2010-11
Writing Fair 2010-11 Scoring Rubric
A choice literature article that gives a new twist to a parent teacher conference meeting
http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/1304.cfm