Our 7th grade Advanced ELA students are currently working via Skype with Katy McKy. Katie is a children's author and magazine writer who is originally from Wisconsin but now lives in Maine.
Getting our students excited about writing is easy when you incorporate author in to the classroom work. Most times this has to be through vodcasts or youtube videos. Here are some helpers in order to assist with your writing instructional planning.
Wisconsin Writes provides a glimpse into example writing processes of Wisconsin writers from a variety of contexts. Each video story featured captures the recursive, complex, often messy process that we call writing from some of the best writers in the state. The videos showcase each writer working on a current writing task and talking out loud about what they are doing in the moment.
The examples from Wisconsin writers span the entire writing process from planning, putting a writing plan into action, and editing and revising. These stories create a space to think about where within a writing process we can explicitly talk about and teach strategies for writing based on task, purpose, audience, and student needs.
I can't imagine my life without a writer's notebook. I hope you enjoy writing and teaching writing as much as I do. Writers Rock, kathy
