Personal Writing

Every week we have two personal writing sessions. Genevieve and I each describe the genre that we will be modelling on Monday and the children choose which group they want to be a part of. They go to the same teacher and group on Tuesday when the focus is on editing. Children are free to choose what genre they write and are expected to edit their own work before conferencing.

We have a writing area full of tools such as:

Inspirational images and photos of the children on the Merri Creek, in Project Time etc.

Word pockets and useful word lists

Writers' Toolbox with dictionaries

Sentence Stems (sentence starters)

Last Monday during sharing time we asked children what genres of writing there are. We then took a survey of what genres they had written.

Yesterday we repeated the activity, adding a few more genres that they had thought of.

We are very proud of our writers in Prep. Children are encouraged to publish selected pieces of writing that they have edited and conferenced. We have a special section in our writing for such pieces of writing.

Come in and read some our published books!