I can't believe it is already almost Thanksgiving. I want to brag on my students. This week my students made their own Google document in Google Docs. We had a lesson about summarizing. Many times I think I take for granted that these students have been taught this process, but from year to year as teachers we need to revisit this process. For this lesson we did a gradual release of responsibility. I have ASU students in my classroom and I wanted to show them the process. So together we made an anchor chart in their reading journals for Somebody Wanted But Then So on the story we read this week, The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine in Reading Street for 5th grade. Then I had the students login into Google Classroom and access a document I made for them to help them make a SWBTS Chart with their partners on a story we have already read in class together. Lastly I had the students create their own SWBTS document from Google Drive and they were able to choose any book they wanted. The students did a fabulous job on this lesson and they enjoyed creating their own documents. I am so proud of my students and their progress with technology.