Subjects

• Arts & Humanities
  --Language Arts
• Educational Technology

Grade

• K-2
• 3-5
• 6-8
• 9-12

Brief Description

A weekly writing assignment results in a year-end volume of work that documents students’ writing progress.

Objectives

Students

• complete a weekly writing assignment that demonstrates their writing skills.
• develop a volume of work during the school year that documents their writing progress.

Keywords

writing, journal

Materials Needed

• pen or pencil and paper
• computer with word processing program (optional)

Lesson Plan

This activity can be done from time to time, or it might be a weekly activity (perhaps a homework activity) that lasts all year long. If you use this as a yearlong activity, you might save the work students do each week and bind it into a special keepsake book to present to them at the end of the year. That bound volume will serve as proof of students' improvement in writing skills over the year.

The activity is a simple one
Each week, students write a paragraph (older students might write more) titled, for example, The Week That Was: September 12-16, 2005. Students might write about something special that happened during the week, something they learned, something they did, something that a parent did, something they want to remember You can give students free range for topic choice, or you might assign a topic for writing.

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