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From the Some People Pay Me To Write Department


It’s not a big department, but hey.

From this month’s Cleveland Family, my Mommy Matters column, “From ‘Great’ to Much Better.”

I take risks with the students in one of my kids’ class. I try to turn gut feelings into learning opportunities. You see, I have had the sincere pleasure of editing news stories for a class of 6-, 7- and 8-year-olds for the last two years.

The process of turning the children’s stories into a classroom newspaper involves several steps. First, they brainstorm story ideas with their teacher. Then, they choose pictures (or their teacher selects pictures) to accompany the stories. When they were younger, the students would meet with me, usually two at a time, and dictate to me what they thought might interest their parents about the picture or topic.

In the beginning, the conversations would go like this:

Me: So, can you tell me what is going on in this picture?

Student #1: We’re having fun!

Student #2: Yeah, it was GREAT!

Me: Awesome. Can you use more words to describe what was so great?

Student #2: It was great because…it was fun!

I hope you’ll read the rest – especially the part about describing winning and losing without calling your classmates cheaters.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:20 pm June 2nd, 2008 in Politics 

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