Serendipity
INTRODUCTION TO WRITER'S JOURNAL
January 20, 2020
It makes sense to begin my journey on this blog by introducing what a writer's journal is and how to introduce it to your students. This blog post will discuss how writing is not just about writing about your favorite things, rather finding passions in everyday life.
Digging for Treasure
LAUNCHING THE WRITER'S NOTEBOOK
January 27, 2020
It's intimidating starting a writer's journal. When you're staring at all the blank pages it can feel like they will never be full. This is when you need to start digging for treasures, finding something you are passionate about to give you motivation. This blog post is all about finding inspiration to spark your writer's journal journey.
What's Your Writing Territory?
DRAFTING STORIES FOR WRITER'S NOTEBOOK
February 2nd, 2020
It's so common to think of a large theme for a topic and then feel either overwhelmed by how much you want to write or you don't dig deep enough. A "writing territory" is the depth and breadth of writing topics. Instead of writing everything about your favorite food in one piece of writing, think of multiple ways you can write about this topic. This is a very useful prewriting trick when drafting notebook entries.
Digging Deeper
Turning Territories to Small Moments
February 8, 2020
There are so many ways that you can help writers move from large intimidating topics to a small important moment. It's so easy to fall into writing bed-to-bed stories. We need to help writers understand that it's important what small moments happen throughout the day! This post is going to be a personal guidance into what strategies are worthwhile and beneficial to your writers!
Growing a Narrative
Creating a Beginning, Middle and End For Your Readers
February 17, 2020
To avoid bed-to-bed stories, we need to model and guide our writers the various ways to create a beginning, middle and ending of a story. Through the use of mentor texts and methods, we can show what a narrative writing piece looks like. This week's blog is all about academic articles that help you to help beginning writers to become stronger!
Poetry is like Bread
Introduction to Poetry
February 24, 2020
Poetry is not only a scary thing to write, but it's also a scary thing to teach! Poetry is often pushed to the end of the year or solely focuses on deconstructing poems. It should be used all the time to promote creativity and emotional writing. Georgia Heard's advice is something that I will without a doubt listen to, and you should too!
Observe like a scientist, Write like a poet
Observational Poetry
March 31, 2020
There is an endless amount of things to write about when thinking of a poetry topic. It's hard to pick just one and sometimes that makes you feel overwhelmed. Observational poetry is a way to use your surroundings to inspire your writing. This blog will also include a Zoom lesson on Observational Poetry based on your hearing. Link will be included at the bottom of the page.
Haiku to You!
Haiku and Other Types of Poetry
April 6, 2020
When you start to become more aware of types of poetry, it begins to inspire you even further. Haikus are such a simple way to express feelings and words, but in short specific ways. This blog will be all about how to build haikus, photokus, and other types of poetry.