Thursday, October 20, 2011
Pre-writing Importance
Watching the video and reading the readings this week, I really learned the importance of pre-writing activities. I always thought they were important but never realized the huge effect they have on many areas of a child's writing. I think that Ray makes a good point that when talking about a topic of writing, students should focus not only on what they are going to write about but rather, how they are going to write about it. I think that this brainstorming stage can be the most important to get students to take an idea and run with it as opposed to just writing a simple story that lacks details.
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I agree and I think it is even more important when you give kids the choice of what they want to write about. When you assign topics usually you are assigning and there is some kind of written form they should follow but I think when you let them choose it opens up all kinds of options to them. When you have all those possibilities open it takes time to think about what you want to do.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is very important to focus on how a student is writing. In my future middle school class I hope to use peer editing as a way to help with this process - by reading different peer writer's works, it may be easier for my students to pick out good and bad writing styles - and to then mimic the good.
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