Week 8-Writing Community

• The components of an effective writing program includes Personal Connection, Writing Conventions, and Inventions. Personal Connection is important for students to incorporate their own personal experiences into their writing, which may include an interactive journal. Writing Conventions are the different writing stages that the teacher will go through with a specific student. Invention is giving the student an opportunity to experiment with different writing formats.

• I would have students incorporat their personal experiences into a narrative because I believe personal experiences is a great motivation for students.

• I would allow students to make personal connections in different subject areas by allowing the student to come up with their own format for their working. For example during a science unit, if the class is studying animal habitats, I would give the students a chance to compare and contrast their own habitat to the given habitat. This gives the student a chance to incorporate their own enviroment into their writing. This motivates the student to find information on how their habitat compares to other habitats.

• I believe this truly depends on the class you have because the class that I am observing now, I would incorporate more personal connections into the writing program for them. I would incorporate more personal connection writing because the students are more motivated to work when it comes to giving details about their own personal experiences.

• I would incorporate student inventions during narrative writing because this gives the student the chance to either write their narrative in a poem form, an essay form, or through using pictures and diagrams.