Juli Kendall's Weekly
Writing Workshop Journal
INDEX
A MiddleWeb Listserv Project
In the fall of 2001, MiddleWeb invited interested persons from our
MiddleWeb Discussion List
and others who visited our website to join in a year-long discussion about
struggling middle grades readers. Juli Kendall, a reading teacher in Long
Beach, California, helped moderate the discussion. Juli also kept a weekly
journal of her own work with fifth-graders who were held back after they
failed to meet the district's minimum reading requirement for promotion
to sixth grade.
During 20020=-03, Juli continued her journals, this time focusing on her
Writing Workshop. Follow each week's entries here!
Find out more about our project at our Reading/Writing
Workshop homepage.
Juli's Weekly Journals for 2002-03
Background about Juli Kendall and her work
Index for Juli's 2001-02 Reading Workshop Journals
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Juli's Journals from 2003-04 (content literacy)
Week #01 -- A Book That's Heavy in Your Hand
Week #02 -- Exploring Some Questions about Writing
Workshop
Week #03 -- We Begin to Write
Week #04 -- Two Students, One Goal: Pass the Benchmark
Test
Week #05 -- How We Launch Our Writing Workshop
Week #06 -- Introducing the Writer's Notebook
Week #07 -- How We Help Our Writers with Spelling
Week #08 -- Writing and Teaching Memoir
Week #09 -- Motivating with "Open Mike"
Week #10 -- "Craft" Begins with Learning
to Read Like a Writer
Week #11 -- Editing: Taming the Error Beast
Week #12 -- The Year of Punctuating Dangerously
Week #13 -- Searching for a Student-Friendly Rubric
Week #14 -- Mid-Year Reflections: A Clip Show!
Week #15 -- More Adventures in Genre Writing: The
Feature Story
Week #16 -- Feature Articles: Into the Fire!
Week #17 -- Feature Articles: Writing and Reflecting
Week #18 -- Feature Articles: Assessment and Evaluation
Week #19 -- Writing for Social Action
Week #20 -- Persuasive Writing: Building Test Prep
into Literacy Learning
Week #21 -- What a Writing Workshop Trainer Shared
with Us
Week #22 -- Shared Reading in Writing Workshop
Week #23 -- Realistic Fiction
Week #24 -- Peer Conferences: Co-Dependent No More!
Week #25 -- Teaching Student Writers to Assess Their
Work
Week #26 -- We Begin the Search for Our Mentor Authors
Week #27 -- Mentor Authors, Part Two: Building Independence
Week #28 -- My LASW Homework
Week #29 -- Thematic Writing: Shooting for the Sun!
Week #30 -- Thematic Writing: Our Note-Taking Crisis
Week #31 -- The Million-Dollar Question: How Do
We Connect Reading & Writing?
Week #32 -- Poetry Partnerships: A Group Structure
That Really Works for Us
Week #33 -- Revision: Strong Teachers Tremble
Week #34 -- Sunny Summer Reading and Writing Projects
Week #35 -- FINAL JOURNAL: Top Ten Things I Learned
This Year
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