• Keyboarding (speed and accuracy)

• Editing keys (Delete, backspace)

• Mouse skills (drag and drop, click, select/deselect, drag/slide, scroll, click inside a table or dialogue box)

• Journal prompts customized for your students (See examples in procedures)

• Format of Journal

  • Google Forms

  • Google Docs

  • Google Classroom

  • Seesaw (or another blogging site)

• Timer

1. Choose a method for daily journaling and model journaling for students so that they understand your procedures and expectations.

   • Google Form Daily Journal Template (Use this gForm method for quick collection and possible feedback via Flubaroo or Forms Quiz mode.  You will have to make your own gForm)

   • Google Docs through Google Classroom (Create a doc and assign in Classroom)

   • Question in Google Classroom

   • Use a blog site like Seesaw
     
     

2. Create and explain a prompt for your students.

   • Related to the day (Thanksgiving: Count your Blessings)

   • Related to your shared reading: (While reading Tuck Everlasting: Weather is used in Chapters 22-24 to emphasize the dramatic events that occur as well as the dramatic internal changes in Winnie.  Provide and explain one example of this with the page number.)

   • Related to your students’ opinions (Should we extend the school day? Why or why not?)

   • Occasionally offer your students the option to “freewrite” about a school-appropriate topic of their choice.

    

3. Set the online timer for 5-7 minutes.  Instruct the students to type as fast as they can.  Encourage them to be accurate, but at first speed should be their priority.

4. Share entries with a partner or whole class occasionally, comment on entries, and/or allow for peer comments or editing.  

5. Continue revising and editing by requiring students to choose one journal entry to submit as a formal essay.

W.6.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Journal Prompts (By essay type and available as a PDF)

Prompts on Pinterest

75 Journal Entry Prompts for Kids

180 Journal Writing Prompts