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This is my writing journal from 4th grade. I vividly remember my teacher allowing us to bring in pictures of us and things we love to decorate our journals. I think all of my positive writing experiences throughout school has impacted my love for writing! I will definitely implement this in my future classrooms.

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Students should be able to work together to develop their writing and push each other to become better writers

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This is a picture from my practicum last year, in a 1st grade classroom. There was a Writer's Corner for students to go to when they had free time. It truly inspired students to write at their own will.

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“Writing is just like talking.  You can say what you want to write.”

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“Writing is just like talking.  You can say what you want to write.”

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Developing and Honoring Identities of Writers 

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Developing and Honoring Identities of Writers 

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Writing is everywhere! I want students to be excited about writing, and be excited to find out
what they love about writing and their writing strengths, and what they need to work harder on. We will work on various writing prompts throughout the year, that can be created by the students. I will have students write about 5 prompts on the first week of school, and we will cut these up and place them into our fish bowl. Each time there is a new prompt to write about, I will choose a student to "fish for a prompt!"
I want students to become excited and passionate about writing, and they can do this by discovering who they are as writers, and not to be intimidated by writing.   We are all in this together! This will be an established rule in my classroom.

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I will spend a lot of time with writing in my classroom.  Students will always be encouraged to write during free time, and we will spend a lot of designated time working on writing.  My classroom culture will be designed for students to help each other with writing, and inspire each other by sharing ideas. Students will be encouraged to use their passions and hobbies to develop creative writing. In an interview with one of my students this semester, he told me that he gets his ideas for writing from things he loves in real life, such as football. This student also told me he loves writing. He said...

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Important Opportunities and Possibilities for Writers

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Important Opportunities and Possibilities for Writers

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Independent free writing, and peer conferencing!

Group writing... creating stories with classmates

Developing a writing style at a young age, and discovering things about themselves as writers

Experimenting with different genres of writing

Being creative and excited about writing and promoting a writing environment to match this as a teacher

Allowing writers to try new things... not always sticking to the schedule

Implementing a "Super Star Writer of the Week" an nominating this student as a class, to celebrate writing

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From the very first day of school, I will introduce to the students the importance of writing, and share my love for writing. I will share pieces of writing that I have written (grade appropriate), and explain to them why I love to write. I will ask them to brainstorm goals for themselves as writers during the school year, and encourage them to pick up a pencil and write when they get a free chance. I will introduce to them the Writer's Corner and how it works, and introduce their writing journals. I want the students to keep a journal to write in daily. I still have my writing journals from as young as kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade. I will explain to my students that I trust them to conference with one another during writing time, because two heads are better than one, and often times our friends can give us great ideas to write about, and to help us when we are stuck. I will ask students to create a box of things  that represent the things in life that they love and are passionate about.  This will be an assignment the first week of school.  They can add to it throughout the school year as they please, and this will be their "Writing Inspiration Box."  I will make one as well!

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HOW DO WE SUPPORT STUDENTS TO DEVELOP AS WRITERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY?