Over this past week my class worked on creative writing assignments. One assignment was very structured and the other was their choosing. The objective was to work on writing, clearly. What surprised me most was how well my class wrote! The writing was fluent, creative, and for the most part, the exact assignment. Plus, every child wanted to share what he or she wrote!
Writing has been said to help clear the way of a soul, or mind. I believe that this is true and was able to see it in the work of my students. A class, which normally has no ability to focus, became enthralled with the work placed in front of them. They were begging to write even more!
So, I let them write.
Once our stories were complete we shared them with the class. One student, who never speaks a word, was ecstatic to share her work! I then thought to myself, let's scrap the blogging assignment for the week. We should become publish authors! We did so and our computer lab transformed from a cave of technology to a magical land filled with child authors!
One of the first stories completed was titled: Why Glasses are Small. When this story was read aloud to the class, everyone was hanging on every word of the author.
Kids Love To Write!
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