Tuesday, July 3, 2007
This I believe...
I believe that you cannot teach without teaching writing. Think about what is writing. It can be directions for an assignment, an article that concerns your content, a blog, an email. As a teacher you are a model for writing because without it you cannot teach. Your students will see and maybe not at first recognize this, but eventually or subconsciously realize that you have been one of the greatest influences on their writing. Do you ever write and the voice of your writing sounds familiar, yet you cannot give a name to the voice? I sometimes wonder if the voices that I hear in my head as I am reading and/or writing aren't the voices from my teachers years ago. They modeled for me the importance of writing, the need for writing skills and how to write in order to be successful. Now, I do have to say that I am a pitiful writer, I don't know as this says much for me, since I now realize that they were modeling success and I just didn't grasp that concept, but I am still learning and listening to those voices from so many years ago.
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Hmm, your blog is striking a chord with me at the moment.
I believe that teaching writing can only be done through reading. How does a child know what is GOOD writing if we don't teach reading first.
When parents ask me how their child can improve their writing I always tell them that they do this through reading. I was never really taught writing at school, I just read reams and reams. Now I can write. I know it wouldn't seem it from my blog and comments, but I promise, I can!!!!
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