Celebrate Student Writing

Celebrate Student Writing

Are you the only audience of your students' writing? If that is the case, it may be time to make some changes.  What do I mean? Students will be delighted knowing that they are writing for a wider audience.

Through writing celebrations, you can accomplish the latter.  As an added bonus, you will see that celebrating student writing adds value to their hard work in writing.

As a teacher, I’m always trying to find ways to keep my students engaged.  If you are struggling to see your students engaged in writing, then maybe it’s time to spice things up a bit! How about taking one day to celebrate writing and acknowledging your writers? You will be surprised at how something as simple and fun as celebrating writing will keep students engaged in writing.

Develop Successful and Confident Writers

One of the ways in which I celebrate student writing is through the presentations of their writing.  After they have shared their writing with the class we allow some time for students in the audience to share what they liked about that student's presentation. Students love to hear others compliment their hard work.  It’s encouraging and it's definitely a confidence booster!

 

We can develop successful and confident writers through something as simple as celebrating finished writing.  There are many unique ways for students to publish their writing and celebrate their final product. After all their hard work brainstorming, mapping out their thoughts and then writing a draft, why not spice up the final step?

 Another way we spice up our final step in writing is by publishing final drafts using the iPad “Pages” app.  Students love to see their final draft typed up.  One thing they love is researching images online that go with their writing and adding them to their final draft.     

While typing final drafts can be a very exciting way to celebrate writing, we also try to spice up final drafts with pencils.  Recently, I introduced our final draft special pencil.  It’s a pencil with a feather taped to the end of it.  This was a unique idea I found while browsing through Pinterest.  Students think it’s a big deal!  They use this pencil to “help” them write very neat.  Not only does it motivate them to use their best handwriting but it’s also a way to celebrate that they are finalizing their work.

I hope you find some of these writing celebration ideas to be useful in your classroom!

Inspiring Minds,

Melissa Hernandez