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Inspire students to be creative, and show them that writing doesn't have to be boring. It can be an outlet for them to be creative, and share how they're feeling, or make someone laugh. Students should be viewing themselves as writers so they are more confident to write about anything they want to!

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"The first priority is for teachers to be writers themselves. Only in this way do they learn empathy with their pupils, which enables them to give more space to pupils when they are writing and respond more appropriately to their work. They are also then able to model writing ‘live’ rather than repeat what has been rehearsed".

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna. Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms (p. 4). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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Who the writing piece is being written for. If you have a certain audience in mind, it will help you have more narrow and specific writing. The purpose helps define the audience.

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What the author intends to use the writing for, are they informing, persuading, or entertaining the readers. This will also help shape who your audience is.
"I want to notice the author’s craft and how that ties in to what kind of writing it is, also called genre, and what the purpose or meaning work the authors are trying to convey, also called mode…."

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna. Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms (p. 225). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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"While mode is a broad classification of the meaning work of texts, genre denotes a specific category of literary composition identifiable by a common set of characteristics."

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna. Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms (p. 23). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

Specific category of literacy composition, or what kind of writing it is. (Romance, Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery...) This also helps define who the audience is going to be.

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Genre and task are the same thing, and defined by the writer. Task is sharing the information with the audience.
"If an unknown substitute teacher is present, children are less likely to share personal stories. Children change their view of the tasks of writing based on different aspects of the environment"

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna. Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms (p. 12). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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Mode implies general categories like narrative (telling a story), expository (explaining), descriptive (describing, often related to the five senses), and argumentation (persuading, giving an opinion, using evidence to support an idea, action or theory). But the beauty of understanding mode is not in its definition but in knowing the “meaning work” that it is doing—or knowing the purpose of the writing.

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna. Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms (p. 22). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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“Mode describes the meaning work that a piece of writing is doing at any given place in the text”
This is knowing what you are writing for, the purpose of writing.

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna. Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms (p. 22). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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Teachers are writers, students are writers, anyone can be a writer! Being a writer brings endless amount of possibilities and opportunities to everyone, and writing can be so powerful and empowering!