Ware County Magnet School

 Mrs. Penny Deems

 Journal Writing

     In Mrs. Penny Deems’ first grade classroom at Ware Magnet, journal writing is a common occurrence.  To ensure that students are correctly utilizing the writing process, Mrs. Deems utilizes a scaffolding strategy that has improved her students’ writing. 

     When the same writing problems occur in a student’s journal writing, Mrs. Deems writes a reminder in the journal of a step/s in the writing process the student needs to remember prior to checking it.  When each student turns in his/her journal, she asks, “Did you check the reminder/s in front of your journal?”  The results have been quite successful!!  

     Mrs. Deems continues to use this strategy and finds it to be more effective than pasting a copy of the writing process inside her students’ journals.

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