How can you help your students become better writers? Encourage them to read! You can also connect them to
other writers and authors. In October, I watched Kate Messner’s live webinar
sponsored by WeAreTeachers. The Google Hangout is archived here. In a 38 minute video, Messner shares her
writing process with younger students and describes her experience writing Rescue
on the Oregon Trail (Ranger in Time #1). Students from several
classrooms ask her questions about writing, researching, revising and
publishing. She prefers to write her first draft from start to finish and to
save editing for after the first draft is complete. She mentions that revising
takes much longer than the original writing!
Author Kate Messner
The webinar was a Google Hangout, a great way to connect
with others. You can be an actual live participant (Google Hangout on Air) or
you can send comments and questions by typed message. It is a similar or
alternate application to SKYPE. Many authors also provide FREE 15-20 minute SKYPE
conversations with classes, too. I found
Kate Messner’s website to be very useful in providing a list of authors who do
so. Check it out here to find more
information and be sure to let me know your feedback on the experience. I will
be researching to determine if there is a similar list for Canadian authors
(although some authors/illustrators on Kate’s list are Canadian).
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