Building Stamina for Independence

The writing process for primary students takes a very long time to develop. We have to be patient and take them from where they are to where we need them to be. This starts by building sustained stamina for writing. It's critical that students build independence in order for them to write for longer periods of time. The chart below shows the students that we are slowly improving how long we can stay on task during our language block. The R stands for Reading, the RS stands for Read to Someone and the W stands for writing. Today on September 16, the class was able to work EFFECTIVELY  on Reading for 16 minutes, RS reading to someone for 11 minutes and Writing for 8 minutes.  I have sent home a very brief writing assignment home for the students to complete. Please have your child read you the instructions and then just sit back and see how they do. You are encouraged to help them with talking through the assignment but please leave the writing UNcorrected. More posts will follow in the following days to help explain more about our language program.