I was thinking about writing in the placement that I am currently in, and I feel that I don’t see enough of it. I go in the afternoon on Monday and the morning on Thursday. The morning has a structured schedule similar to Ms. McClosky’s schedule in the Tompkins book. They start the morning with a class meeting. They do the lunch choices, calendars, a couple of math related morning routines and then they go to their seats and work on their morning sentences. They have two sentences that they need to correct and rewrite on the line below. The CT puts it on the ELMO and projects it onto the white board and they correct it ass a class. When they are finished they can read . Then they have a free choice time where they can read, write or practice words on the white boards. There are many other reading opportunities throughout the day. There are many of the things discussed in Chapter 3 of the Tompkins book. There are signs, printed rules, and labeled class items to name a few. I guess my concern with the writing is this: during their writing time I see many people in the class focusing on the pictures to go with the stories instead of the story itself. I am waiting to see how much writing they do for other subjects but unfortunately there are a lot of obstacles to seeing the other subjects. There are speakers coming in, or switched gym periods, or an extra music class . Plus there was a substitute one of the days which meant worksheets. I wish I could be there more often to see what goes on.