Sunday, March 25, 2012

"Because"



Because Doc

Not something I can put up during testing, but I was in the poster-making mood, what with my new alphabet and everything! (See previous post for alphabet info.)

I failed to credit my inspiration for this poster in the original post. I have two teachers in my district (including one of my son's middle school language arts teachers) and helloliteracy.blogspot.com (the boarder was a freebie she posted on her blog as well!) to thank for sharing their ideas on how to get students to explain answers with the use of the word "because." I would never have managed this poster without their ideas!
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5 comments:

  1. These are both great posters. Of course I want them too. Love the blog, I'm following you now. :-)

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  2. Dear GoddessofWhimsy,
    The wording of your "because" sign sounds an awful lot like my Just "because" post of last week. My Creative Commons license is listed as Non-Commercial, Share-Alike and Attribution, which means to give credit back for the original inspiration. Also, I mispelled prediction as "predication" and you did too.
    Thanks!
    Jennifer Jones @ helloliteracy.blogspot.com

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  3. Hi Jennifer,
    My poster was inspired by 3 different places, and yours was certainly one! I tried not to directly copy anyone, but I totally admit that I found ideas from all that I incorporated. (I also use a draft doc where I paste ideas I want to be sure I don't forget; I don't doubt that I looked at your spelling and just assumed it was correct, when I was reworking everything to try and say everything I wanted it to say.) It was your use the terms "schema" and "evidence" that I was particularly inspired by from your site. The "how" and "why" came from a coworker, and the notion of an answer bring a "conclusion" and a "response" from a middle school teacher my son had. I didn't even think of crediting the three inspirations, but I should have. Thanks for reminding me! I will amend my post to make sure your post is mentioned. It was a great post and one of the reasons I decided I needed to stop just telling my kiddos to use "because," (which and earlier grade level won't allow them to use) and post it.

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  4. As teachers, I believe we must model the stewardship of digital literacy as this type of digital behavior is exactly what we expect of our students. Nice revision.

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  5. I just stumbled across your blog through a pin on Pinterest. I love finding 4th grade blogs!

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