All Kids Can Write! Let's Go!!

8/27/2015

Thank you to everyone who attended one of the two iLearn sessions in August! I hope that was only the beginning of our journey together and just the conversation starter for a vibrant and relevant discussion about writing instruction with our youngest students.

My intent is to use this space each week to chronicle the journey of my writing work with kindergarten and first grade students this year. I want us to have a place to "meet" and share what is happening in our classrooms. I am blessed to be working with two teams of teachers who believe in their hearts that #allkidscanwrite - that is the only non-negotiable you will ever see me post! If we don't believe it, neither will the children who enter our classrooms with hearts full of stories they are bursting to share with us.

My room (the reading room) is set up. The classroom library books are standing neatly in purple baskets on my new Target shelves. The leveled books are ordered and waiting in white-labeled boxes. I have two complete sets of colorful Papermate Flair M markers - great for writers and writing.

I am ready, excited, scared, inspired...because I know that #allkidscanwrite! Let's Go!!

4 Comments

Christy Yates

8/29/2015 03:10:38 am

Christy, thank you for your suggestions on setting up my writing center for the beginning of the year. Having these basic items ready to go will help launch the writer's workshop: date stamp, ink pad, stapler, staple remover, hanging file folder container, numbered folders for each student, pocket folders for each student, unlined paper, two line paper with picture space, more lined paper with picture space, pencils, pens, colored pencils, crayons, markers and scissors. Using your suggestions, I will instruct students on how to use these materials. I believe that All Kids Can Write. Now, to engage and convince the kids!

Christy Weisiger

8/29/2015 08:19:48 am

Christy, thank you for sharing all of the tools you will have ready for the writers in your room this September! All writers need the right materials to help them compose and publish their work, and first grade writers are no different. Setting up a well-organized writing center invites students to be independent about their writing. And I know that you will be just as successful engaging and convincing kids that they can ALL write!

Laura Prymak

8/29/2015 07:08:44 am

Thank YOU for your support and guidance in teaching writing to our little Kinders! I am so excited to begin this year. I have seen first hand if you BELIEVE all kids can write they will!

8/29/2015 08:22:51 am

Laura, if your enthusiasm at the iLearn session was any indication, I am certain your "kinders" are going to have an exciting year of writing! And you have the key to effective writing instruction already in your heart - you BELIEVE! Keep us posted!!

All Kids Can Write! Let's Go!!

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