Hi Judy, Along these same lines...what has worked well for me is to say to my students: "What have you read that looks like what you want to write?" or "What have you read that looks like what you've written?" For some reason, reframing the question this way helps young writers position themselves as readers and as writers. This is from Katie Wood Ray's book, Study Driven. Elisa Elisa Waingort Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual Dalhousie Elementary Calgary, Canada I loved it when Katie Wood Ray advised us to teach readers to 'think like writers' and writers to 'think like readers,' but I never figured out how to be specific enough...how to give kids the leg up to understand this--it wasn't enough to keep saying it, LOL, and I know because I tried that. (judy3ca)
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