Wonderful Writers

I had the privilege of attending an incredible professional development workshop with one of the leaders in teaching young children to write - Regie Routman. In applying her techniques, it has been so exciting to see our Room 8 students grow as writers.

We are currently writing non-fiction chapter books. The students are writing on topics of interest, such as race cars, parties, sharks, video games, snowboarding and much more.  The children have learned to plan across their fingers, group like facts together and write more by using "twin sentences". Most students are writing books with four to five chapters with many interesting facts in each chapter.

Our classroom library will be richer when these wonderful stories are published!