Programs and Projects
Dialogue Journals
OVERVIEW:
Keep a daily written dialogue between the educator and student.
When responding to the student, model correct grammar, punctuation,
and spelling.
THE ROLE OF THE EDUCATOR IS:
- communicate through writing daily
- use mini-lessons for strategies for journal writing
- model correct English in written response
- scaffold development of writing skills through the journal
- make dialogue journal writing fun
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WHAT VISITORS WILL SEE:
- students use dialogue journals regularly
- students use known words, word wall, word bank, and print-rich
environment as a resource for writing
- students develop skills in using the resources in the room to
get words they cannot write independently
- teachers respond to journals in positive and reinforcing ways
HOW IT WORKS:
- Student-centered: Dialogue Journals help make a connection
with an adult.
- Privacy: Keep the journal between the educator and the student.
If sharing, get permission first.
- Student first: Make sure the student, not the educator, writes
the first entry. This helps set the tone.
- Educators respond to students: Remember that they ???
- Continuous writing
- No corrections: Do not use the red pen. Instead, respond back
in ways to show the correct writing.
- For all ages and abilities: Use the journals with preschool
through high school students, and those who just write a picture,
to those who write much more complicated writing.
Bailes, C. "Dialogue Journals: Fellowship, Conversation, and
English Modeling." Perspectives in Education and Deafness,
17:5 (May/June 1999).
CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS:
Here is one example of a dialogue journal:
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MATERIALS:
It's Your Turn Now! Using Dialogue Journals with Deaf Students.
Bailes, C., et al. (Laurent
Clerc National Deaf Education Center). (1986).
Burton, Jill, and Michael Carroll, eds. Journal Writing.
Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages,
2001.
Dialogue Journals Writing with Nonnative English Speakers:
A Handbook for Teachers. Peyton, J. and Reed, L. (Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.). (1990).
Student and Teachers Writing Together. Kreeft, J. (Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other Languages). (1990).
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A GOOD PLACE TO START:
A good summary of research on using dialogue journals with students
is at http://www.cal.org/ncle/dialogj.htm
Bailes, Cindy, Searls, Susan, Slobodzian, Jean, Staton, Jana (1986).
It’s Your Turn Now! Using Dialogue Journals with Deaf
Students. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University, Laurent Clerc
National Deaf Education Center. Order at 800-526-9105 (tty/v); http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/B584.html.
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SUPPORTIVE RESEARCH AND DESCRIPTIVE
LITERATURE:
Bailes, Cindy, Searls, Susan, Slobodzian, Jean, Staton, Jana (1986).
It’s
Your Turn Now! Using Dialogue Journals with Deaf Students.
Washington, DC: Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at
Gallaudet University.
Bailes, Cynthia Neese (1999). Dialogue journals: Fellowship, conversation,
and English modeling. Perspectives
in Education and Deafness, 17 (5), May/June.
Peyton, Joy Kreeft (ed.) (1990). Students and Teachers Writing
Together: Perspectives on Journal Writing. Alexandria,
VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Schleper, David R. (2000). Dialogue journals…for students,
teachers, and parents. Odyssey,
1 (2), Spring, 11-14.
Shuy, R. (1985). A method of dynamic assessment of reading,
comprehension in dialogue journals (Gallaudet Research
Institute Monograph). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University.
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CLERC CENTER RESOURCES:
I Like Dialogue Journals, BUT... (DVD/manual)
Dialogue
journals: Fellowship, converstation, and English modeling (Perspectives
in Education and Deafness, May/June 1999)
Writing
Conversation in the Dorm (Odyssey, Summer 2000) (PDF)
Reading
to Deaf Children (Perspectives in Deaf Education, May/June
1999)
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WEB RESOURCES:
Dialogue
Journals: Interactive Writing to Develop Language and Literacy
Dialogue
Journals (ERIC Digest)
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RESEARCH ON DIALOGUE JOURNALS
Dialogue Journals – General
Abstracts in Word | PDF
Dialogue Journals with Children
Abstracts in Word | PDF
Dialogue Journals with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Abstracts
in Word | PDF
Dialogue Journal Writing with Other Student Populations
Abstracts in Word | PDF
Dialogue Journals and Reading
Abstracts in Word | PDF
Dialogue Journal and Writing
Abstracts in Word | PDF
Dialogue Journals and Content Instruction
Abstracts in Word | PDF
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