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Each student's work-in-progress printout travels with the
student's AlphaSmart.
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The students read the work-in-progress and select one re-
sponse category and write a response in the designated file.
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The first student to work in a particular file should type the
words as shown above and add his or her personal comment
and name.
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Students trade keyboards after contributing to an assigned
number of files.
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All comments should include the name of the person making
the comment.
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The author eventually gets his or her work-in-progress and
AlphaSmart back to review the comments and use them to
shape future versions of the writing.
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The author can use F1 to write his or her own responses to
questions like these:
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What kinds of comments were most helpful?
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What kinds of comments were least helpful?
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If you only had time to take three bits of advice to
improve your writing, what advice would you
use?
Looping
This activity develops fluency and the ability to focus on a topic.
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For 3-5 minutes students do a quantity of "freewriting" in file
F1 on a topic appropriate to the class. In "freewriting", they
try to get down a lot of thoughts without worrying about
typing mistakes, spelling, complete sentences, changes of
topic, etc.
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They then review their work, deciding on one particular idea,
sentence, phrase, or word that captures some interesting
point.
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They use this text to begin another short freewriting period in
file F2. They then review F2 and use the text there as the basis
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