Knowing the writing process is important in doing research. Therefore, my fifth graders are learning and experiencing the writing process as they study about a state. I have been having the students write notes on a certain aspect of their state every other evening for homework. We began taking the notes in class and students were to finish their notes for homework.
On the other evenings in between, students work on writing their rough drafts of that section. In class that day, we take the notes that they finished for homework the previous evening and bubble map them. We put the topic of the notes into the center bubble in their journals. Then I model possible bubbles coming off of the main bubble depending on the types of notes the students may have written. I also model what facts (or smaller bubbles) would be written off of those main bubbles. Students ask clarifying questions and then begin mapping their notes, helping each other, or asking questions of me as they arise. Then students are better able to write their rough drafts with the bubble maps.
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