Day 4 - Learning About Teaching & Writing

Things We've Learned About Writing:

1. A writer writes.
2. Seat and time. It takes time to make your writing all it could be. In order to do that you must sit in your seat and write.
3. Let go and find the story inside of you.
4. Choose a story you can feel passionate about.
5. You must go far enough in your writing.
6. A lead is whatever it takes to get a story underway.
7. Writing and revising is about finding your voice and shaping your story.
8. Plot is an increasing movement of a series of recognition.
9. Hook your reader with a catalyst.
10. Scenes are the building blocks of stories.

Things We've Learned About Teaching:

1. A writer writes. Children are writers. Let them write.
2. Give children the time to write.
3. Help students find their own stories.
4. Let students write about what is important to them.
5. Teach students about leads and hooks.
6. Teach kids to shape their stories.
7. Teach kids to find their own voices.
8. Teach kids that plot is a series of action / reaction units.
9. Teach kids how to hook their readers with a catalyst.
10. Teach students to recognize and write in scenes.