Touchstone text is the text the teacher chooses to share with students to teach the genre. Mentor text is the text the students choose to guide their writing. As srudents discuss text we should be open to the ideas our students bring to the conversation. Take time to imagine the writing notebook when discussing a piece of text.
Poetry
An exploration of keeping our notebook alive during the immersion stage of a poetry genre study. Options for writing - the kinds of writing you could in make in your WNB when reading poetry.
* How does the poem make you feel? Think about
*. Write entries in lines and stanzas to practice the feel of poetry
*. Reread entries and underline cool or interesting phrases or words you could use in poems
*. Change a previous entry into a poem if it's written in non-poem form
*. Collect words or phrases that you find interesting or powerful you have heard or read before
*. Create an entry that you think a poet would make that is not on this list
This is what I need to get back into doing. Wonder if Collins would like to write together.
Present poems to girls in packets, individual poems, pages - rather than books.
* find quotations to create something from
* find a line I struggled with when reading the poem to write off of
* play with form structures - use poem as a structure outline
* mirror the structure or topic of poem
* draw
As a teacher copy interesting student notebook pages to share with class.
Helen Vendler's Poems Poets and Poetry - a book to check out.
Essay
Begin immersion reading like a reader. Hang out with the genre. Focus on what we like about it. The goal being to catch and hook them.
Then move on to what makes a good essay.
Anchor or touchstone text - as immerse our students in genre literature shared should be the best.
The second level of immersion is the time to allow students to look at details of piece of writing. Beautiful beginnings or endings.
Talk about what they notice in the writing. Figure out how the writer went about the writing. After identifying. A few qualities or features invite students to try out one of these writing moves in their WNB. Provides options for students who may be reluctant to revise.
Questions to guide reflection
How did going through the study feel?
What was hard for you?
What do you think about your finished piece?
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