Writing In Our Own Words

Today before we started to work on the final drafts of our drought articles, we wanted to think about writing in our own words. I think when we write nonfiction two things that we always seem to need to work on is not making the writing sound like a list of facts and plagiarism. To try and tackle a bit of both problems we looked at some writing by the amazing Seymour Simon.

We marked pages from each of these amazing books. Then the students in their groups got a chance to read the text. This reading exposed them to how Simon writes without making his writing seem so list-ish. Then we talked to the groups about how we turned text from a source into our own words. The groups took off and turned the page they had read into their own writing. The groups did a great job. Tomorrow and the rest of the week they will get a chance to put this practice into action as they create their final draft.

Hope you had a great start to your week.