Friday, October 3, 2014

It's Time for TEPSA in Region VII: Oct. 15th

Improve Writing through Digital Storytelling: Turning Life Into Writing and Speaking

Creating an Environment for Writing Scores to Soar


When students come to school each morning, they have many stories to share with their friends as they unpack or move through the hallways. Stories are shared with the class during morning meetings, or with a teacher.

In the classroom, writing can happen in many different ways, whether it's free writing in a notebook to gather ideas or publishing stories to share with the whole school.

The TEKS: State Standards for Writing expect that children across the grades can write for specific purposes including:
  • Opinions that persuade a reader and make an argument
  • Informative writings that explain an idea and relay information, and
  • Narrative stories of real or imagined events.
As students move from one grade level to another, the complexity of these tasks will change greatly. The persuasive writing that takes place in a second grade classroom will look very different than the work that a seventh grader produces. From kindergarten through 12th grade, students are expected to share their writing through technology, so shouldn't we as adults also do the same?