Fifth grade writers handed in their first polished piece of writing for the year: their personal narratives. Students completed self-assessments today and wrote reflections about the writing process. We specifically spent a long time editing and revising so they can learn to focus on that important step in the process. Below are a couple of quotes from students around the question of what they learned about themselves as writers or about the writing process. What an exciting informal assessment! I think it's so important for fifth graders to have time to think about how they think and learn. It would serve all of us well, actually!
Today was thrilling for me as a classroom teacher. I consciously planned to incorporate time for reflections on learning this year, and so to have students articulate these important big ideas about writing, through their own experiences, that I'd hoped they'd implicitly realize by the end of the year exemplifies one (of many )aspect(s) I love about teaching..
"I learned that when you just type it up, it's not done. You have to revise and edit it."
"What I learned about myself,... about my writing,... well it really sounds twice as good if you revise it."
"I realized that when I think I'm done, I'm not done. Every time I thought I was done, I just kept revising and revising, and now I just really am so happy with it."
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