Variety is the Spice of Life

Reflecting upon my writing programme I noticed that the spark and the creativity had gone from the students in their work. For some of them, personal voice had become less prevalent. During conferencing, we are predominantly talking about learning goals and rubric targets, next steps. Descriptive language was being used and praised, but more in the tone of including some for 'my audience' rather than exploring words and being creative and imaginative. In short, writing isn't as fun as it used to be. 

A solution I'll introduce is to include a variety of literacy activities as part of a class writing tumble. The intention is to keep the writing aspect fresh and use oral and visual independent activities to develop an audience and foster creativity in the students.