Coming up with an idea to write about is often one of the biggest challenges for student writers. This course will provide you with easy and effective strategies to overcome that block.
Example: Identifying a special place to get ideas can be as easy as thinking about what happens on the trails around the local lake that you walk or run on, mealtimes with the family around the kitchen table, or a destination vacation where a wonderful memory was made.
A Teacher's Story...
When I began teaching writing to elementary students, I soon realized how much they needed someone to believe in their stories, to hear their voices, and to support their writing journeys.
This work is fundamentally based on the decades of great work coming out of the Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University, New York, New York and stands on the shoulders of Lucy Calkins' work and all that followed her.
It's time to write!
Writing time was always met with groans and frowns and defeated attitudes...before we even began to write.
The struggle is real!
My struggle to find a way to ignite my students' passion for believing they have stories to tell and the confidence to share them.
Writer's Workshop!
Using a writer's workshop model allows the teacher to provide quick, explicit instruction for the daily work. And then students spend the majority of their time writing - drafting and revising.
