Greetings, fellow scholars!
I assume you’re scholars. I assume I’m a scholar. Today, I have two resources that we can explore. These resources are all about getting your students writing and, better yet, published. Today, we notice that our students tend to have an aversion to writing, but with a little ingenuity we can work around that. The first thing we need to do is to get them writing. If we’re going to get them writing, we need to give them a purpose. Our overall goal is to create a class anthology of short stories and have them publish it as a fund-raiser for the school. To personalize the writing process, get feedback, and make it a community effort, we need a safe place for them to write and interact. Today’s web-based resource is called WORDPRESS (www.wordpress.com). WordPress is a blog-based website. Students can post their writing as a blog entry. What’s better is they can see each other’s work and leave comments. Those comments, as per your expert guidelines as the teacher, are to be constructive in nature. If you don’t have something nice to say, help someone grow stronger! As a class, decide on a theme – perhaps an event, a color, a concept – and then that will be the cornerstone of the writing process. Have them write a narrative, a short story, and a poem. They’ll select their best work to be added to the anthology at the end of the semester. And that’s it! They can keep their website to blog on things like current events for cross-curricular activities, or even post reports for science and history or post learning strategies for math. Once you’ve established this resource, it can literally turn into a limitless portfolio that’s at the student’s disposal. But that may be for another day. Good luck!
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