This week in class brought on a lot of great learning opportunity, starting with the writing strategies presentations. I learned a lot about writing. As a group, Kira, Emily, and I studied Interactive Writing. I definitely plan on using this strategy in my own classroom some day. Not only does it help the students significantly increase their writing ability, but also gets them up out of their seats and interacting as a class.
Another great thing that we learned was the process of experience-based learning for writing. One of my favorite activities was taking the students to a museum and having each student put together a little story for the day on what they saw. Then, take all the different stories and have the students keep journals on other events too.