My students love to write and create. When my students write, they generate a deeper thinking in reading, science, social studies, and poetry. Writing helps them learn more and remember more. As creative as they are, they like to show off what they do by typing and printing their work on our printer, which is no longer working!
My students live in a low poverty large urban city.
Our district has students from 55 countries speaking 48 different languages. Many of our students speak English but can barely read or write it. Many students approach assignments as something to get through without understanding the relevance of those assignments to their lives. Through creative writing and publishing, my students see the importance of written communication. My students need a printer and a laminator.
My Project
Publishing is important. Students do their very best because their writing is headed for publication and a real audience. That makes a difference; effort and results go up!
Publishing emphasizes to my students that writing is a social process and an exchange of ideas between authors and readers.
Having feedback from peers provides motivation for writing and emphasizes higher level thinking such as creativity and organization. And because the students are publishing, they take the time to check their spelling, sentence construction, and punctuation. As they write and publish more, their basic writing skills become stronger, and they can focus less on these basic writing skills and more on developing and communicating their ideas.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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