Jennifer
from Teaching With Grace has put together a fabulous summer book study. The
book is Talking, Drawing, Writing:
Lessons for Our Youngest Writers. The book is written by Martha Horn
and Mary Ellen Giacobbe. I am so excited to participate in this book study. I
love finding new teacher resource books that can excite and encourage teachers.
The introduction alone was so inspiring. Since I’m moving to kindergarten next
year, I was so excited to participate in this book study that can help me
identify the best practices to use to teach young students how to write. I’m a
little late joining the linky party because of our family trip to Disney World,
but I’m so excited to participate.
The
chapter highlighted two great questions for thought. (page 23)
·
What experiences are we providing in the classroom
that could spark topics for writing?
·
How do we design our yearly curriculum so that
children are exploring and discovering and playing and engaging with each
other?
After
reading this chapter, I know that I want storytelling to be a big part of my
kindergarten classroom. The author set the chapter with several examples of
teachers encouraging the students to tell stories about their own experiences.
The teachers in the examples continued to question to students to give more
information about their story. This questioning naturally leads to students
being more detailed in their stories, which will later lead to more detailed
written stories.
Being
able to tell a story is the foundation for students being successful writers.
As a teacher, I need to develop a classroom that provides students with
authentic learning experiences that will spark student creativity and storytelling
ideas. Not all students come to us with the same background. The activities
that we provide our students will help give all students stories to tell.
How do
you provide authentic learning experiences for your students in the classroom
that will provide storytelling opportunities?
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