This is a written dialogue between a student and an adult that transpires daily. The adult does not correct the grammar, punctuation, and spelling, but demonstrates the use of correct English by writing back to the student. Consider asking students to participate with you in writing in a dialogue journal. Dialogue journals can be important additions to the classroom routine. Dialogue Journals provide a literacy tool for all ages.
Dialogue journals are journals written on a continuous, preferably daily, basis.
They are also dialogues, usually between students and their teachers, but also between parents and students, parents and teachers, and students and students. Dialogue journals are ideal classroom tools. They require no planning, meet the individual needs of groups of diverse students, and can be with used in every age and ability level. Best of all, they are immensely enjoyable for both student and teacher. Student-centered Dialogue journals have been used successfully with deaf and hard of hearing children since the early 1980s.