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Journal Writing: Implementing an Intentional Practice

by 826 National
This Educator Tool shares a variety of prompts to help you springboard into journal writing with your students.
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Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.10 Common Core Standards Icon
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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What You Will Do

Like a new notebook, journal writing is full of possibilities: it’s an opportunity for students to brainstorm ideas for future writing and to imagine worlds that don’t exist yet. Journaling also provides students with a dedicated time to reflect on their experiences and to process the world around them. While academic writing is defined by rules and procedures, journals are limitless. Students are not bound by genre conventions, or even full sentences. They have the freedom to use illustrations, lists, and sentence fragments to communicate their ideas. It is a space all their own.

The practice of journaling can benefit students’ personal and academic well-being in so many ways: it can support students’ mental health by providing a personal space to reflect and process emotions, it can promote critical thinking and the expression of ideas, and it can encourage students to think creatively. At 826, journaling looks different across...

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