Amanda's Inquiry 3 Part A - Step 3

Step 3:

                What might these events mean?

                From these events I learned that students are more motivated to produce excellent pieces when they have an end goal in mind, especially if this end goal includes sharing their piece with others.  The way students worked diligently on their work by staying focused and adhering to revisions, showed me that students took pride in their work and were eager to share a finalized copy with others.  From the publishing party, I was also able to see how other students responded to small moment books, and the qualities of good writers.  They were attentive while students were sharing, and showed genuine interest in these books.  They paid attention to detail and shared positive and supportive responses to the authors writing.  I learned that students were able to write small moment narratives and correct teacher revisions to their stories.  I also learned that students need work in practice how to use classroom given references, such as the world wall or their word journals, and I learned they also need more practice working with partners.  They often got off task with partners, and also were often unable to locate words on the word wall or even locate the word wall.  Students also need work in practicing how to read revision marks such as capitol letters, lower case letters, punctuation, inserting words, and correcting word wall words that are miss spelled.  Overall through the events of this unit, I learned that students can be greatly motivated by the task, and need work in practicing how to use classroom references.