Motivation+and+Stamina

**As a writer I need...**
• List on 3x5 cards • Draw pictures

**Authentic Audience**
• [|Digital Writing] • [|Letter writing] • [|Student Press Initiative] • See also: Technology and Publishing

**Authentic Purpose**
• [|Persuasive letters (MH)] • [|Post-it notes and memos (E)] • [|ReadWriteThink Printing Press] (use to create brochures, newspapers, flyers, booklets) • [|Shopping - math writing (EM)] • [|Summer reading - persuasive writing (MH)] • See also: Technology and Publishing

**Choice**
• Allow students choice in WHERE they write • Give choice in assignments (different but equal) • Writers have the choice about whether or not to respond to a question by making a revision

**Clarity**
• Be explicit about WHAT we are learning and WHY • Be explicit about revision and editing purposes--small pieces • Use photos or pictures, reference charts

Collaboration
• "Collaboration is not about agreeing. It's about creating." • [|Collaboration vs. Cooperation, Coordination, and Communication] • See also: //Collaboratehere, Google docs, Primary Pad, Voicethread// in Technology

**Environment**
• Allow students choice in WHERE they write • Create an environment conducive to writing (atmosphere- lighting, music, etc.) • Make writing time sacred- a set apart time

**Journals, Logs, & Letters**
• [|Daily logs] / Weekly logs • [|Family message journals] / Nothing Books • Have children write a letter to someone at home who could write back to them • [|Response Logs] that document thinking • Write back and forth with a child • Write a collaboratively composed letter home to parents

**Lists**
• List what we read/write (shows the many forms reading/writing can take) • See also: //Toolbox// below

**Photos**
• Photograph students working (to remind of expectations) • Photographs to illustrate concepts • [|Photos as prompts]

**Remembrance**
• //Remembrance and the Reluctant Writer// -- [|Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge] (EM) • //Important Things// -- [|Original Important Things Prompt] from Mike Horn HVWP (EMH) -- [|Important Things] by Melissa Springer (EMH Note: Some texts not appropriate for young children) -- [|Animoto intro to Important Things project] (EMH)

**Student work as exemplars**
• Use other students' work as exemplars (mentor texts) • [|Teen Ink] (MH) • [|Stone Soup] (EM)

**Teacher as writer**
• Write with our students (or writing ahead of time so we can share with our students) • Write in the forms that we ask our students to write in • Write back and forth with a child • Share our writing

**Think/Pair/Share**
• About [|Think/Pair/Share] • [|Think Pair Share] organizer

**Toolbox**
• Create a toolbox with your students (a compilation of what they know) • Code or “Cheat” books-- a self-created book of strategies students can use • Georgia Heard's Revision Toolbox

**Whip Around**
• Writers share just one line of what they wrote • See also: //Whip Around// under Publishing