Using Journals in the Secondary Classroom

By 

Melissa Kelly

Updated on April 16, 2019

Journal writing is an incredibly flexible instructional tool, useful across the entire curriculum. While often used as a class startup activity, it is used primarily to give students an opportunity to speculate on paper, confident that their ideas, observations, emotions, and writing will be accepted without criticism.

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