Dialogue Journals

Students and teacher maintain an ongoing written conversation in notebooks.

Procedure

1. Students write a journal entry (topic of their choice or prompted).
2. Teacher reads and writes a genuine reply — responding to content, not correcting errors.
3. Student reads teacher's reply and writes back.
4. Continue the exchange over days/weeks.
5. Periodically, give focused feedback on one recurring error pattern.

Tips

• Reply to what they say, not how they say it.
• Model correct forms naturally in your responses — students notice and pick them up without explicit correction.