In
reflecting upon my time in elementary school, I've certainly always loved
language arts. One particular memory that I have of language arts is from
the fifth grade. My teacher had a knack for making language arts exciting for
us. Looking back now, she was very effective in applying language arts to the
entire school day. She would assign us to work on “free-writes” during our
language arts period. We then would proceed would share our stories. Several of
us were so excited about the stories we had been working on we would share our
stories every day and even bring them to our morning meetings for
“Show and
Tell”. Our teacher made writing so exciting for us that when we had free time
in the classroom, most of us would sit down and continue to write and develop
our stories. Finally, this teacher also assigned us a journal. We were to get
any type of journal, notebook or diary of our choosing and we were to write in
it each night for ten minutes. We could write about anything that interested us,
from a thrilling mysterious story to an acrostic poem. She would then collect
the journals each morning, respond to them and hand them back to us for the
next evening. This small assignment really helped our class to practice our
literacy skills and become comfortable writing.
That is a dedicated teacher. That is a lot of feedback. The best writing instructors can build that in to their practice. If I can put in 25% of the effort of your teacher I will be able.
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