Hi everyone! I think it would be very helpful to add our comments directly to someone's posting. As I was reading everyone's posting, it seemed that it would get pretty time consuming to look for responses if they were spread out over several postings.
It's great to see so much work being done in writing. My question is, "What happens when I focus on voice in my writing lessons?" If anyone has looked into voice and how to bring it out in children's writing let me know. I will be doing a lot of research in this area but I was encouraged to see so many entries about the writing of a son or daughter so let me know if anyone has dealt with this area.
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Hey Tom:)
I found voice to be a difficult one just cause of first grade and all but one thing that was helpful was read alouds. Kids never get to big for read alouds:) But being able to show and demonstrate voice in different ways I think is very helpful. I hope this is what you were kinda looking for.
I am very interested in what you find and to hear about any strategies that you found to really help teach voice. I think read alouds are also a great way to expose kids to voice, but I found it difficult to teach voice without using books as examples.
I agree that using published authors as "mentors" for supporting strong voice in writing is a wonderful approach. I also think it works very well to use your own writing to model voice (I know from your proposal that you plan to share your writing with your students and applaud that decision). Using your own writing will allow you to talk about the process of building a stronger voice in writing and the various strategies you use in your own writing process to accomplish that. In my own teaching of writing, I've found that revealing my own writing and writing process (the good, bad, and ugly!) has been one of my most powerful tools.
I'll be anxious to hear how things are going!
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