Google Docs for Writing
Using Google Docs for modeling and planning has been quite helpful in working with our students who require additional support but are not asking for it, as well as for those learners who struggle with spelling. The new voice to text feature really aids students in the process of transferring information from 'brain to paper'. Or in this case, brain to Doc.
To begin with, with our reports, we used a Google doc for accountability and to support with modeling. Students had to write an introductory sentence to their report that including what the 'thing' was, the groups that it belonged to and where it could be found. Having the student's writing all in one doc meant that they could use others' work as support but also, it was easy to track who had completed the task, and a quick look over the work highlighted important next learning steps for me. For example:
I could see from this work that there were still some major capitalization issues, so we spent a quick hotspot session recapping these, before moving on. Following this, we used an existing planning template but adapted it for use in Google Docs, which was helpful in the planning process. Especially when it came to feeding in new vocabulary.
I'm interested to see how this progresses with repeated uses.
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