Raising Readers and Writers

Well, I did not keep up with blogging each night and tomorrow is the last day of our Young Author’s Writing Camp. It’s been a great week! I’m busy making tie-dyed cupcakes for our writing celebration. The kids will spend the first part of the afternoon getting their displays ready, creating before and after posters, and writing some thank you notes. Working with 7 other teachers who love literacy has been wonderful. We each come with different backgrounds from high school to early elementary, public school and private school, but we’ve found that it’s been very seamless to integrate our ideas. And each writer, no matter the age has found something to write about each prompt.

So here’s the recap…Writing journey maps, Who am I as a writer?, “Arti” fiction, 3 kinds of journeys, Nested Meditations (more on this later…I’m intrigued with it), Newspaper blackout poetry (more on this too), J. Patrick Lewis, trip to Franklin Park Conservatory to take photographs and write about inspirations, guest teacher Lisa Sieberling shared ideas on how to integrate writing and photography, Renga (another type of poetry), Inksheds, and Photo Story…with a little glitch…it’s important to save as you go.

I’m anxious to see the kids’ before and after posters. June shared this idea based on Cardboard Testimonies, which you can see here. Our campers will complete one side of their poster with what kind of writer they were before camp and on the flip side, what kind of writer they are now.

I am so thankful that I was able to work with such gifted teachers for the last 2 weeks and such brilliant young writers!