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Informational Text Writing is one of our categories of writing instruction in third grade. In December, we gave it our first "go" taking the writing process UP TO the formal revision and edit. (In other words, although we rewrote our texts there were still likely to be some spelling and mechanical errors.) The children were so excited about their art projects and all their independent research (tablets, bubble maps, notebook pages of notes) that I couldn't bear to tell them they couldn't put it all together because our time was short before the holiday for each to sit down 1-1 with me. So, instead we peer revised and edited and we understood that these pieces would be the baseline at which we would look back as our revising and editing skills get better and better. I LOOOOOOVE children's artwork. I love it's stress-relieving capabilities. I love how it looks. I love the pride many of them take in it and the joy they feel when they are finished. I love how pensive they are when they make strokes and color marks on a piece of paper. Looking at it makes me happy. Looking at the students' happy when they do it, makes me happy. And... to have it enhance their writing projects....is perfection, to me.
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