Giovanny's Writing Strategies

The scholars would get distracted and not participate in the grand conversation properly whenever it is a book they already read before. The scholars would change the story for fun and not talk about what they like or did not like about the book. For when the books they have never heard before, the scholars sat quietly and was paying attention to the story. The scholars also participate in the grand conversation properly when it is a book they have never heard before.

The scholar did learn the spelling strategy because he would automatically know what to do whenever the teacher begin to teach him two new words for the day. He knew to spell the word aloud, close his eyes to spell and, and write down the word without the teacher telling him the steps. The teacher only provide cues for example, when the teacher use her pen to point at each letter of the word, the scholar knew it is time to spell the word aloud while looking at it. When the teacher covers the word, the scholar knew to close his eyes and begin spelling aloud. When the teacher still covered the word and tell the scholar he spelled it right, he knew the final step is to write down the word he just spelled.

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When Giovanny first wrote his personal narrative, he had trouble of finding things that interest him to write. I decided to spend more time on talking and getting to know Giovanny to spark any interest on any topic to write about.
2. After a while, he told me that I always go over to his friend’s house after he finished his homework to play. I wrote down all the possible things he wanted to write about on a piece of paper labeled as “My Writing Territories.”
3. Giovanny decided he wanted to write about a field trip to the