Ellen+Fatseas+Summer+2010

Ellen's Level 1 Class:

Ellen's Summary: My objective: To have the students edit their written work. During summer session, I focused on using my text, //Side by Side// to achieve my objective. First we practiced listening to the dialogues from the CD. They repeated this twice. Then I had them write all the questions and their answers in their notebooks. Later I looked at their notes and advised them to make some corrections. Then I had volunteers post all their work on the whiteboard. At this stage, there were still some omissions and errors. I encouraged the students to look carefully at the board work and see if they could find what was missing and correct it. Again I pointed out that what they had written correctly in their notebooks and what was now on the board did not always match. This exercise led to the final brainstorming of their work. We decided together what the omissions and misspellings were and fixed them. This final practice reinforced them to edit their own writing and realize that they could change their work. When they later heard the CD dialogues, they began to understand the conversation more clearly and the importance of the written word. A special thanks goes to my aide, Ana Sandoval, for all her assistance in the computer lab and the classroom. She’s a gem!