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- thebda on 10 Mar 13
  
  I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.</div>
  
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By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
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When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
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Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
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Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
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Online writing is a 21st-century skill
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careful reading can advance great writing.
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Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
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What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call “narrative nonfiction”: writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways.
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Web sites, which have begun providing online lesson plans using articles for younger readers, and on ProPublica.org.
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