1. “For me it is essential that children are deeply involved in writing, that they share their text with others and they perceive themselves as authors. I believe these three things are interconnected. A sense of authorship come from the struggle to put something big and vital into print and from seeing ones own printed words reach the art and minds of readers.
For me it is essential to show the importance of writing. This statement seems very broad and basic but for me it says a lot when it comes to writing. Writing is a part of everything we do and is a huge part of literacy. In order to show students the importance of writing you have to always say “The reason I am doing this is….” Just as Chapter 7 of Writing Essentials stated. Then in order to do this I looked at the quote of the day as a great source that describes it just as our readings did. In order for children to see the importance of writing they need to be deeply involved in writing, they should want to (and be able to) share their text with others, and perceive themselves as authors.
2. So fair in my placement writing has been seen but is in the developing stages for my grade level (first). Some writing that is done every day but only for select students is when we do centers. Students do centers every day and they rotate to a new center everyday. One of these centers is the writing center. So far one week the students had a ready sketch that they could trace letters and letter sounds. Another week they were aloud to write whatever they wanted on a larger ready sketch. This week the writing center has them matching beginning letter sounds in a puzzle form. We also have done two packets for the subject areas of literacy and social students that have allowed them to trace letters and once in a while write a word or finish a sentence the best they can do. When it comes to writing on their own we have no program set up where they can write about whatever they want which is something that chapter 8 of Writing Essentials touched on. As this chapter talked about it is important to for a teacher to fit writing into all subject areas so it is constantly being practiced. This ties into what I was saying about my philosophy on writing. Students need to know the importance of writing and they will see more of that when they are doing it all day. In my class I believe it is more of a surface level quality and quantity of writing. We have given one writing assessment that asked the students to write “My favorite place to go is”. The students had a very hard time writing this. What they struggled with most was the fact that we were not allowed to help them spell any of the words in their sentence.
3. Many students, in my classroom struggle with their writing skills everyday. I could choose a number of them so I will classify just one as student x. During writing instruction the student is struggling and I believe there a number of things influencing this struggle. The student often asks how to spell a word instead of attempting to sound it out on their own. Once writing a word or two they often become very distracted and uninterested in the material they are being asked to do. I believe the student is struggling because they do not have the resources and examples they need to be a good writer. This student is disinterested in the writing they are doing and shows no interest to want to complete it. Some strategies that I remember reading that would help this student greatly would be to set an example for them. What I mean is they have no model to look at to see writing done or how it is done. The Writing Essentials book talks about showing good model writing behavior. Another helpful tool would be to show a writing procedure. Many things often distract the student so if the students had a writing workshop where they had rules or procedures this in return might carry into daily writing.
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