Dialogue Journals

Dialogue journals waiting to be read and replied to on Sunday night

We use dialogue journals to practice writing friendly letters and to develop student-teacher relationships. My students and I write notes back and forth to each other throughout the year and it gives me a chance to really get to know each one of them on a more personal level. It also allows me to assess their writing growth as the year goes on and to watch as their punctuation and spelling improves and their ability to write using the friendly letter format with appropriate ideas/content develops. 

An example of our letters back and forth  (student's name has been blurred)