Interest+Journals

**Reader - Writer Interest Journals** //**Thank you Grant for your diligent effort in preparing our interest journals! This is Grant's very own Interest Journal Wiki **// **Writing like a Reader:**

Choose your interest journal topic...read expectations in the WELCOME message.
 * 1) Consider your **reader and your overall PURPOSE**: to describe, to inform, to tell a story or personal memory, to persuade.
 * 2) Choose a **PLAN** that fits your purpose and that will help your reader follow and enjoy your writing. (link)
 * 3) **In Google DOCS - DRAFT** your ideas from ideas into sentences.
 * 4) Critically **REVISE** your writing with your reader in mind.
 * 5) **EDIT** for spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation.
 * 6) FINALLY...copy and paste your writing in the Interest Journal as a **NEW POST** for future readers. (To see UBER-AWESOME mentor examples from our friends at Powell - click here and browse around for inspiration. Scroll down on the page)media type="custom" key="15489754"

**Reading and Replying like a Writer:**

Enjoy reading others' posts and "REPLY TO AUTHOR" with positive comments about their writing.
 * 1) POSITIVE COMMENTS should include the following:
 * Recognize the author and their title
 * (//Example: Rachel, your post titled, My Dog Spot, thrilled me! or David, I was drawn to your post titled, Space Invaders Storm Planet Earth, and couldn't even breathe until I reached the end!)//
 * Write an "I noticed..." statement(s) about CONTENT.
 * //(Example: I was interested in the fact that your story focused on your trip to Italy because I have always wanted to go their myself.)//
 * Add a comment(s) about the CRAFT you recognize the author included.
 * //(Example: Your use of imagery and figurative language painted pictures in my mind, brought wafts of smell an made my skin tingle. For example...)//
 * Conclude with an overall positive comment about the writing.
 * (Example: You did a nice job creating a poem that expressed your love of your black Lab.)

**Credits and Kudos:**


 * Kittle, Penny. Write beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing . Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2008.
 * Lauri Hamill - LPS h@ttp://hamillwiki.wikispaces.com/HOME
 * http://hamillwiki.wikispaces.com/Interest+Journals
 * Sandra BenAmi - LPS http://benamiwiki.wikispaces.com/

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