Week 4

The Gibbons chapter was as if to prove the presentation I did with Megan and Evan last week. It broke down the scaffolding of completing the writing. We presented in a fashion that was to promote the learning of writing for young children. Where as the chapter by Gibbons combined the things and created a way of teaching writing to ELLs. I also like how the chapter discussed the writing process as steps and building on them so that students could create a finished piece that was complete and free of mistakes. So many times it as if writing in school is a math problem. Where your given the things to add and you need to find what it equals or the final piece. Then the student is told whether their piece is write or wrong. If instead we work through the problem the answer the students come to or their final piece will be much more effective. Also it will be easier to see where they went wrong writing. That way it is more than marking up the paper when it is finished with a red pen and saying next time you should do this and that.