Dean Shareski shares his thoughts on writing recently and in particular, questions the use of things such as 6 Traits and writing benchmarks.
The post and embedded links, as well as the comments that follow, are a lot to digest. I think that writing digitally is very different than writing on paper - but for lots of different reasons. And I am pondering the pieces of his post about drafts and revisions.
And I can't help think about the districts I work with - where teachers are struggling to teach writing because they were never taught how to do that themselves. And now we are asking them to teach writing in uncharted territory...digitally. Not an excuse - just thinking about the change process, especially in education.
I'm pondering a lot of what he has to say - and wonder what you think. Post your comments on this blog or that - but weigh in!
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