Friday, October 26, 2012
Finding Mistakes in Writing
This week proved to be an Awesome week. I was concerned how my students would react to finding mistakes in their writings. Most of the mistakes we focused on was basic writing errors such as a period at the end of the sentence, an uppercase letter at the beginning of the sentence, and all other letters lowercase unless there is a "special" word that requires an uppercase letter in the sentence. I thought that they would not like finding errors in their own work, but I was wrong. On Monday after journal time (NCATE 1) I passed out highlighters and guided the children through finding errors. To begin with they were highlighting everything (errors and non-errors). I explained to the children that our goal was to have zero highlighter marks on our paper. By the end of the week I only had a few children that made simple writing errors. We then moved on the finding errors in printed work. I used the mimio and projector to display sentences on the board. I allowed the students to use the "magic" pen to locate errors (NCATE 5 &9) . They had a blast.
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I love the idea of allowing the students to use a highlighter to find errors in their work. Great way to motivate the students!
ReplyDeleteGreat job! Your students are learning to edit their work. Using technology is a great way to engage students and keep them motivated to learn.
ReplyDeleteKnowing how to edit is vital to the writing process. The children will never make it to the publishing stage of writing if they can not edit. Great lesson!!!! I use colored pencils to mark errors. It is the same concept but much neater. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteI love it. Once again another great lesson. There students are going to be ready for 5th grade writing. Great job!!!
ReplyDeleteStudents would rather find their own errors rather than have someone else find them. We learn from our mistakes. It is great they way they are learning how to edit. Great use of the indicators.
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