While reading the introduction I immediately thought of my 4th graders and their personal struggles of writing. They struggle with the concept of meaningful writing. (Our district does NOT have a writing curriculum, and we do not teach traditional spelling. We teach word work.) The students have a hard time with spelling, ideas, and word usage.
While reading this chapter I found these few items very interesting:
- Seeing the teacher as a writer
- I have never thought about writing for the students to read. I love this idea. I think that if we did an example from start to finish many students would have a better clearly defined idea in their mind of "What it should look like!"
- Quality is more than quantity.
- I already do this with my students, I remind them if it is done in a paragraph don't rattle on for a page to fill the space. Get the job done and move on.
- Craft authentic voice
- The student needs to learn at a young age to identify the audience and write for them, AND let their voice shine through.
On to Chapter 2 :)
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