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 In Language arts you end up with two journals, or bifurcate them from the "free-write" or "writing journal" and the journal for textual analysis and critique where you explore the common threads of human condition that exists in all words and texts.
-The writing journal helps us to understand what a child knows, how they know it, and why they value it. Students can respond to daily writing prompts and then pick pieces to develop during writing instruction
+The writing journal helps us to understand what a child knows, how they know it, and why they value it. Students can respond to daily writing prompts and then pick pieces to develop during writing instruction.
+Make the writing journal special. You do not assign it for homework and you keep the grading, if any, minimal. You do have to make it a regular part of the class and students need to see you the teacher journaling. You need to share responses from your journal.
+Use a variety of prompts and free-writes. Some students may want to explore the deep questions of the human conditions. Others may due their best writing about aliens with bad flatulence.
+The writing journal is one of the major tools in establishing your classroom as a community of readers and writers.
 **Literary Analysis Journal**