This document discusses using blogging to support English language learners in meeting Common Core standards. It provides an overview of how blogging allows students to share ideas and write for real purposes. When students write blog posts, they engage in the writing process of revising based on reader feedback. The document also lists standards that blogging supports and describes how two different blogging formats were used in a classroom.

1. Digital Writing, the
CCSS and English
Language Learners:
Voice and Relevance
Matter
Janet Ilko Cajon Valley Middle School ELL Writing
Teacher
San Diego Area Writing Project Fellow

2. Student Choice Inspires
Voice

3. Passions to Words, Sharing Our
Stories
 “You don’t have to be the
star, you can be the light
shining on them.”
 RawandaIbrahem Writing
for Change student
 Cajon Valley Middle School
Grade 6

4. Welcome to CVMS!
Expect More, Achieve
More!

5. Student Demographics

6. The San Diego Area Writing
Project/ NWP

7. Building Language: Stanford
Graduate School of Education
The Understanding Language  Instruction focuses on
District Engagement providing ELLs with
subcommittee has released a opportunities to engage in
set of Six Key Principles to discipline specific practices
support ELL’s in meeting the which are designed to build
rigorous, grade level conceptual understanding
academic standards found in and language competence
the Common Core in tandem.
Standards.
 Instruction leverages ELL’s
Blogging directly supports three home language, cultural
of those standards. assets and prior knowledge.
Ell.stanford.edu/content/six-key-  Standards aligned instruction
principals-ell-instruction for ELLs is rigorous, grade-level
appropriate and provides
January 11, 2013 deliberate and appropriate
scaffolds.

8. Why Blog?
Student blogging is not just a short
term project, it’s become a forum
where students can share their
ideas and write for a real purpose.
The beauty of blogging is the
revision process becomes
seamlessly part of writing. Once
you push submit, there is an
instantaneous audience. That
realization that you will be read,
and that your words matter
create a sense of urgency and
need to clarify and justify the
posts.

10. Two Blogging Formats

11. Standards for the Lesson
 NETS for Students
 2. Communications and Collaboration
 Students use digital media and environments to
communicate and work
 collaboratively, including at a distance, to support
individual learning and
 Contribute to the learning of others. a. Interact,
collaborate, and publish
 with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital
environments
 and media

12. NETS Standards for Lesson
 5. Digital Citizenship
 Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to
 technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:
 a. Advocate safe. Legal, and responsible use of information and
technology.
 b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports
 collaboration, learning, and productivity.
 c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
 d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

13. Writing Standards
 7th and 8th Grade CCSS Writing Standards
 2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a
topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information
through the selection, organization and analysis of
relevant content.
 4.Produce clear and coherent writing in which the
development, organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 5.With some guidance and support from peers and
adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed
by planning, revising, editing, re-writing, or trying a
new approach, focusing on how well purpose and
audience have been addressed.

14. Writing Standards
 7th and 8th Grade CCSS Writing Standards
 6.Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to
interact and collaborate with others, Including linking to
and citing sources.
 7, Conduct short research projects to answer a question,
drawing on several sources and generating additional
related focused questions for further research and
investigation.
 8. Gather relevant information form multiple print and
digital sources, using search terms effectively, assess the
credibility and accuracy of each source, and quote or
paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while
avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for
citation.

15. Lesson Objective
 By the end of today’s lesson we will:
 synthesize information from an article using the
They Say, I Say, and So strategy to write
informative text conveying information about the
article.

16. What does it mean to find a
source?

17. What is They Say, I Say, and
So?
. Question They Say I Say So…
Why do People I blog to One reason
people blog to inform to blog is to
blog? teach people teach
people about our people
work. things you
know.

18. Reviewing Articles

19. Your Turn: They Say, I Say,
and So?
. Question? They Say I Say So…
What are
the key
principals of
EL
Instruction?

20. Why Do My Students Blog? What
have they learned?
Using Edmodo to
collaborate Working on Kidblog site

21. Sources
 Here are some additional sites to view our work:
 www.writingforchange.net a site where we display
student work from the Writing for Change program
and the San Diego Area Writing Project
 www.sandiegokidswrite.com our class blog
 www.writinginmyhand.org my personal blog where I
document the work in our classroom.
 http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/4670
 Journey to Digital Learning Day, a resource about
our blog work and travel to Washington D.C. for the
Second Annual Digital Learning Day

22. Sources That Support The
Work
 Digital Learning Day Links:
 https://vimeo.com/58016014 The introduction to the
blogging lesson
 http://www.digitallearningday.org/learn-and-
explore/lesson-portals/
 A lesson on academic commenting
 http://www.digitallearningday.org/learn-and-
explore/exemplary-models/
 Exemplary Models Cajon Valley Union School District,
Cajon Valley Middle School

23. Sources That Support The
Work
 Sites to Use With Your Students To Start
Blogging/Interacting with your students
 www.edmodo.com
 www.kidblog.org
 www.edublog.com
 www.voki.com

24. Sources That Support The
Work
 Sites Used as Inspiration for this lesson/unit
 http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/12/25/blogging-lesson-plan-commenting/
 http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/how-to-write-a-blog-comment.aspx
 http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/better-blog-writing.shtml
 http://moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-write-great-
blogcomments.
 http://biancasblog.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/08/26/etiquette/
 http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategyguides/
 teaching-with-blogs-30108.html
 http://www.notesfrommcteach.com/2010/09/learning-to-blog-usingpaper.