Graffiti Boards

Source: Short, Harste, & Burke (1996). Creating classrooms for authors and inquirers . Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Students explore a particular concept in the trade book and are invited to stop and write their observations and reflections on large butcher paper in the form of graffiti. Each person takes his or her own corner of the paper and works alone, sketching and writing images and words and phrases that come to mind. Students share their entries with each other, then with the entire class (Short, Harste, Burke, 1996).