Five Questions- Part 3

The challenge continues with question 3...

3.  What are three things you hope to accomplish before the end of the school year?

Simply put- more writing, more writing, and more writing.   Yeah, I know that's sort of cheating...but...

As the reading teacher I missed working with students to become better writers so when an opening came up as the English teacher on my team I grabbed it.  Unfortunately, my new job coincided with the county's decision to push reading in all areas.  It seemed like every county-level meeting looked only at the reading instruction side of English.  Writing was put on the back burner.  

I've found that students are more reluctant to write as of late- and that's not coming from just the reluctant readers- I see it in students of all levels.

With the time I have left I'd like to work on writing fluency by offering more quick writing opportunities during instruction.  I'm also working on having the students do a little of their own blogging through an end of year writing challenge.  (Thanks to my friend Tracey for continually pushing me to do this!)

Before the end of this year I'll also look over my plans for the beginning of the year to add more writing.  Come next September we will start the year off with even more writing.