A Collection of Resources to Inspire my Future Writing Students by Mickenzie Westfall

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Voice in writing allows the reader to connect to the story. When a student has access to reading material with a strong voice, it sets up the student for how they want to include their own voice in their writing. The student can read and then write how they feel and think, explain their perspectives, and convey their message. This gives the student the power to express their personality through their writing and listen to others as well.

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Ideas are the heart of writing. Whether the text is factual or fiction, ideas are what make writing come to life. By being able to express ideas through your writing, you are able to relay your core message to bring awareness, communicate opinions, problem solve, and so much more.

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Conventions are the guidelines set in place to make sure everyone is able to enjoy reading and writing. By having a standard of punctuation, grammar, spelling, and capitalization, writing becomes translatable for each language. These elements of writing provide a framework of clear communication so writing can be seen, heard, and felt.

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Organization allows the writer to express their message concisely to be articulated and analyzed. A proper flow of topics allows the reader to easily understand and interpret main ideas. Connections between the reader and the text occur when the organization allows that clear communication.

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Presentation allows the reader to be invited into the writing for what they need and are accessible to. This is taken into consideration during the final draft stage to show the reader that you care about the piece you wrote. Great use of margins, illustrations, graphics, font, and legibility are examples of how to present an inviting story.

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Word choice is a great leverage for the writer to be able to convey a message so vividly to the reader. Use of specific and intentional vocabulary, formal or informal lingo, can help show expression of a feeling, place, and ideas. It is important for students to try not only to use impressive words but every day vocab that can strenghten their writing.

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Sentence fluency is another great way to add meaning to writing. How we read writing and how we hear writing can be musical in a way. The rhythm and flow of writing keeps a reader engaged in the story, wanting them to read on. It is important to know how to link ideas together in a piece to keep the attention of the reader and also them them to keep up with the ideas of your message.

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This book is about how a boy in school is not able to play with his peers during recess, due to his hearing sensitivity. Through making a paper airplane, he finds someone similar to him that he is able to play with and be slowly integrated into the rest of the class. It uses illustration to guide the reader through the text and word emphasis to show importance of an idea.

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This story teaches students that anyone can write with any level of writing skills. The boy is encouraged by his sister to start writing with one letter and drawings. He then gets the confidence to write more and more on his own. Organization is used to demonstrate thoughts versus dialog in a comic book fashion.

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This story is about stories engulfing other stories. By integrating foreign word systems, it is preserving cultures by sharing their unique scripts. It shows students that no matter the language, letters, or symbols stories can be found all around the world.

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This books is about a boy learning to enjoy the writing process after being discouraged by his imperfect work. His sister shows pride in his "ish" work that encourages him to keep writing. Word choice is used by using the word "ish" to describe that doubtful feeling that all new writers have.

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This book is about a student that is discouraged in art class because he believes he cannot make good art. His teacher tells him to start with a dot and go from there. The idea that students who don't know where to begin, just need to start. The ideas will flow once you start writing your ideas down.

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This story is about a monster that is nervous about his first day of school. However, during his first day he realizes he really likes school and it wasn't as bad as he thought. Voice is used by the author to show her enthusiasm and passion for learning. This monster's voice of fear into joy is expressed throughout.

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This book is about finding out how to use your skills and strengths to overcome the obstacles to achieving your dreams. The organization of the sentences give the reader a sense of the feeling of the illustrations, such as wind, ice, water movement.

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This book is about a character names Henry that confuses truth and lies during show and tell. This leads to his teacher encouraging him to turn his lies into stories, so his lies can be fictional. This gives the idea that students can use writing as a way to express their ideas through writing, even if it is imaginary.

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This book uses organization to show students the art of how to create poems using the world around them. The illustrations that portray this little girl's daily life are transformed into her writing. This is beneficial for students who struggle to find a topic to write about.

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This book talks about a girls day from leaving her house in the big city to catch the school bus, to spending all day at school, to coming back home at the end of the day. It uses organization to demonstrate the meaning up words such as over, under, inside through word placement.

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This book is about a boy who travels to 13 countries to share their own unique cultures. While talking about things like their language, food, wildlife, and geography, students learn the idea that although someone may seem very different from you, you can also be similar in some ways. It also teaches to think positively about individuality.

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This book is about the changing lives of a group of friends that run a babysitters club in Connecticut. This could be influential to students who struggle to connections with their real life to their writing. The hard topics of divorce, siblings, moving, friendships, and more will relate to many young students. This will give kids the courage to give themselves a voice in their writing.

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Leap frog is an amazing series that was used frequently at school and at home during my early education. Leap frog is great because you can use this resource to teach in many ways other than reading to engage the students. Important key concepts of writing such as hearing letter sounds, phoenix, rhyming, and pronunciation are available.

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This series has so many books about elaborate stories of adventure between Jack and Annie. Lessons include science, history, geography, culture, and humanity. It is perfect for young readers just starting to read chapter books. Chapters are very short and paragraphs are four to five sentences long. The books have a lot of detail but are short enough to where students have enough time to read through the intro, climax, and conclusion.

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This staple is about a young student named Junie who goes through her day to day life in school while learning valuable life lessons. She learns that what matters most to her is focusing on being the best person on the inside. Junie is known throughout the series to have improper grammar. This is a good example for students who struggle with conventions to be strong willed like Junie and work on being your best self, despite the criticism of others on your work.

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This is a mystery series suited for more upper elementary students. Cam uses her photographic memory to help solves mysteries to prove others wrong that girls can be the hero in the story too. This will challenge the writing student's perspective on who character dynamics while creating a story. Young students will generally write about characters similar to themselves. Therefore, this will encourage them to write about characters you don't typically see being in the spotlight.

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This book is very useful for teaching students the basic structure of writing and how to organize their ideas. From plot structure, to paragraph structure, to idea structure, this contains written and visual graphs to be printed out for student referral. Students can find ways to come up with new ideas, organize them in a fluent way, and map out the details in the body that support their main idea.

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This books describes how as a writing teacher, you can teach the importance of inclusion, equity, and agency first. The assessments, conventions, and mentor shared text with fall into place once you have established a connection with your students. Keeping the instruction child centered keeps them happy, engaged, and feeling a sense of purpose in the classroom.

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Writing stories is one of the best ways for children to give focus to their creativity while learning and having fun. With this book, students will find all the guidance and help they need to hone their writing skills and create their own original stories.

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Teach Writing Without a Pencil is a collection of games and activities to help students improve their writing skills. Strong verbs, authentic voice, cohesive flow, and the joy of writing--all taught in games and activities. This book doesn't replace your writing program, but it provides tools to enhance that program.

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This books provides ways to find strategies, prompts, and tips that meet every student where they are now. This saves time and support readers’ progress toward skills mastery with classroom-ready features such as revised lesson language with updated mentor texts, teaching tips with advice for differentiation, and mostly new student-facing charts.

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This tells the story of a hungry caterpillar's life from the moment he hatches to when he turns into a beautiful butterfly. The caterpillar eats and eats until he can't eat anymore. Children are able to relate to this story because of the places he goes and the lack of self control when he eats. Through repetitive sentences and rhymes, emergent writers can practice sentence flow.

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This classic is about a misunderstood boy named Max, who escapes to an island in his imagination of creatures that act as wild as their emotions. Max learns the limitations of his wild emotions and about the unconditional love from his mother. The strong emotions we all feel will eventually subside, and we can still love the person for who they are. This book utilizes engaging illustrations from Max's imagination to aid in sentence comprehension for emergent writers. The pictures set the tone for how the sentences are to be read.

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This story takes a reader through the beautiful sounds of the world. It encourages collaboration between two readers to read this playful poetry. One student is to read what they see and the other shouts out the noise they hear from that animal. It is a great way for emergent writers to start thinking about their experiences in more detail, by adding in senses other than sight in their writing.

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This little boy named Jerome inspires others to make their own collection of words. Other children collect tangible things, but Jerome values the sounds and meanings of words more. He loves finding new words that pair together unexpectedly to collect in his scrapbook. He later realizes that his collection of words accidently creates a passion for language and communication.

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Poetry

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Conventions

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Paragraph Organization

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Story Organization

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Brainstorming

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Analyzing Writing

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Rough Draft Checklist

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Checklist

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Checklist

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Analyzing text

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