Writing has the opportunity to impact students in a positive, beneficial way. Through writing, students can learn how to communicate ideas, feelings, or their opinion on topics that they find interest in. Writing is not just responding to prompts, but engaging in the process of brainstorming, creating a draft, reconsidering and editing, and producing a final product. Writing is not just completing work in school using a paper and pencil, but using word processing to develop a letter, using video programs to show a public service announcement, or using presentation programs to pitch an idea. Writing, and the many different forms that it comes in, prepares students for realistic situations that they will find themselves in as they grow older. As stated in one a text that I found most interesting during my studies, Teach Writing Well by Ruth Culham, "You have to explore, talk, think, and question to write well. You have to find out more, consider different angles, and read what others think on the same topic--because you are curious. Writing is, after all, a process of discovery. It's an intellectual journey of exploration." When writing is viewed this way from both teachers and students, it has a larger impact on the way we communicate and express our thoughts or feelings. This change in the view of writing helps provide a larger opportunity and understanding to those that may need more support and guidance.
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ELEMENTS OF WRITER'S WORKSHOP IN MY CLASSROOM
Supported by Graham, MacArthur, & Fitzgerald (2014) as well as Ruth Culham (2018)
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EXAMPLE OF WRITING LESSON
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REFERENCES
Culham, R. (2018). Teach writing well: How to assess writing, invigorate instruction and rethink revision. Portsmouth, NH: Stenhouse.
Graham, S., MacArthur, C. A., & Fitzgerald, J. (2019). Best practices in writing instruction. New York: The Guilford Press.
Olivieri, P. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://rockinresources.com/2015/06/writing-mini-lesson-23-revising.html
Graham, S., MacArthur, C. A., & Fitzgerald, J. (2019). Best practices in writing instruction. New York: The Guilford Press.
Olivieri, P. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://rockinresources.com/2015/06/writing-mini-lesson-23-revising.html