Let’s Keep Practicing!

There are two major purposes of this post.

One:continue learning about blogging and commenting.

Two: begin to think about your own opinion piece on an animal or plant and its structures.

Number One! As I have continued my own learning about blogging, I realized how important it is to first READ a post. READING a post is important because you can’t leave a thoughtful, complete comment unless you’ve taken the time to analyze the words.

To paraphrase the course I am taking, there is a process to blogging. The two steps we will focus on right now are:

1. Read others’ posts.
2. Comment on others’ posts.

Before you comment on this post, refer back to the Commenting Guidelines page on our class blog.

Number Two! Using the texts from previous lessons in Reading and Science, you will create a claim. (Later on, you will use the texts as research/resources to find evidence to support your claim.)

When you’re ready, your comment will contain your claim and what resources you will use as evidence to support your claim.

I’m New to This!

Have you ever tried something new? A sport? A new school? A new hobby?

How did you feel?! Blogging is new to me and writing my first post for you to read is scary and exciting!

I have explored some good model blogs to learn from. I have found useful examples and a ton of guidance through my blogging “classes”.

You will get to watch me hatch and grow our class blog in the next couple of days and even weeks.

We will all learn much together about writing interesting, thoughtful posts, designing inviting blog pages, and COMMENTING in a way that creates purposeful conversation.

In your comment below, share one commenting guideline that YOU think is important/necessary and why you think so.

Soon, you will be ready to hatch a blog of your own!!