Cycle 2 Action 2 Teaching Points

• Blog writers choose topics that will get a reader to think and feel. Sometimes it is helpful to look back at our research and think about something we feel strongly about and brainstorm possible research details we can use to persuade our readers to our point of view.
• Blog writers learn to navigate a blog site such as www.blogger.com. To do this we read appropriate blogs on the site itself to get a feel for format, and click on the various links to grasp the layout and content of the site. It might be helpful to take notes along the way.
• Writers understand the blogging is a process that needs to be followed. It helps to follow directions provided by the teacher until we become familiar with the process.
• Blog writers create and post blogs as multimodal text. We do this by finding pictures, videos and/or sound clips that support our topic.
• Blog writers persuade readers to see and often times take on our points of view. One way to do that is to predict what the reader's counter view might be and validate the view before exposing them to our own.