I have an hour every day for writing and I want to start this at-length writing piece on Monday, but I just don't feel like I am approaching it the best way. If you want to give me some tips to get them started, I'd love to hear them. ![]() If you wouldn't mind, I would love to hear some ideas from you. It is going to be a story, sorry, I got a little mixed up in my flurry of writing.I apologize. Go for it, and revise your own classroom process along the way as need be! It can be your model of writing showing them how you used words to create mood or asking them to find your words that create the mood, etc. Also, picture books are a great source of using real authors to model the ideas you'd like your students to try.( I can't name a source off-hand, but you can google it or check out for suggested titles to use as models for various traits) Students are great at using modeled work in their writing.Īs the first responder suggested, start each writing session with some sort of mini lesson.and that can be from the picture books. Ask for their suggestions as you revise your work using an overhead projector or TV-computer connection, so your students share a brainstorming session and then know they have valuable ideas to help you and others. Get a feel for what they are doing as writers by doing your own written piece as they work on theirs. Modeling is key in teaching writing, so do as much of this as you can with the students. As you have been working with the class on the 6 traits, what have they been writing in order to practice?Įxpect this to take a while since you want them to go through the entire process. It isn't too early to have your students write something of length incorporating things you've been teaching and they have been practicing. (Use The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere as a choral reading - my students used to "perform" this to rave reviews.) Their writing will become less mechanical and will take on - yes, a poetic sense. And you'll see quotes arise from time to time from poems they learned. Inculcating that rhythm into phraseology in their essays and stories will be evident as the year goes along. If you do the later and they each have their own copies (as opposed to a class set) they can take markers and look for transitional words and phrases, varied sentence lengths, and conclusions - all three difficult for middle school age students.įind a few short poems - Frost has some fine examples, but Longfellow does too - that students ALL read, and each chooses one to memorize. Do a sponge activity at the beginning of class and/or a quick review of a skill - expecially spelling/homonyms or read something well-written from a magazine or newspaper. Which will it be - essay or story?Īnd either way, I don't think it's a good idea to ever work only on a writing exercise. Then, you write about them using character to develop a story. I want them to start writing more and have extended writing projects, because I guess they have some pretty long ones for 7th and 8th grade.Īt first you mention the students writing an essay. I am not sure where to go next after this.my ideas are running pretty thin. What does everyone think about this? Too soon, good idea, bad idea? I am open for input. ![]() Should be interesting to see how it's going to work out. ![]() We are doing some activities next week to introduce them and give them some lead in ideas for this. I am going to have them write a story using conflict, character development and mood. They have a great idea for organization, word choice, sentence fluency and ideas, so now it's time to put everything together. We have been discussing and working with several 6+1 Writing Traits over the past few weeks and I believe my students are ready to roll with this. I want them to complete the entire writing process - pre-writing, rough draft, editing, revised draft, editing, final us, I want them to incorporate different elements into their story. ![]() I am going to have my students start writing a pretty extensive essay in the next couple of weeks.
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