I know that during the school year everyone gets super busy. It's hard to find time for our own writing. But what if you had some simple daily goals to help you stay in the habit of daily writing. Better yet, what if you could schedule just 5-10 minutes a day with your students to write together?
For this final Monday Morning Warm-Up, come up with one small writing goal for each day of the week. For example:
Monday: Write a haiku or short poem
Tuesday: Write 500 words
Wednesday: Use a writing prompt to add something fresh to your work in progress, or to discover something new!
Thursday: Write an active scene using mostly dialogue
Friday: Choose an emotion (sad, angry, worried) and write a scene using actions and dialogue that show this emotion, rather than spelling out how your character feels.
Share your 5 ideas/goals in the comments and I'll make a master list and post it at the end of the week! Then, you'll have all kinds of ideas to chose from each day. If we get enough, we'll have daily goals and writing prompt ideas to get us through the whole school year! Please share far and wide so we can get as many ideas as possible. Let's do this! And thanks for being here!
I will add a few ideas of writers who posted:
Dianne Anderson posted:
Pam wrote:
Monday: a word list
Tuesday: write a story or poem using 7 of the words from Monday's list
Wednesday: Write a pen pal letter to a person in another country, a person you have yet to meet
Thursday: Write about an act of kindness (one you have seen, done, or hope for)
Friday: Write about someone you have observed (in the store, on the road) but do not know. Make up a name and a life for them.
Monday – Setting - using pictures from outdoor magazine (LLBean catalog) describe the scene using your 5 sense. Now add your characters
Tuesday – 10 Common Word choices – list of “common” words: happy, sad, house, etc, using thesaurus, look up synonym and antonym replacements. Compose your new fabulously worded sentence using a new word choice.
Wednesday – Non-Fiction – 5 minute brainstorm of categories – space, revolutionary war, diseases – 3 minute brainstorm of specific topics in the category. Then some on-line research to use for writing.
Thursday – Opinion Partner Write – one for the other student against
Friday – “If I could Go Back in Time” – who would you want to meet – what do you think they were like, now research an aspect of their life to report.
Tuesday – 10 Common Word choices – list of “common” words: happy, sad, house, etc, using thesaurus, look up synonym and antonym replacements. Compose your new fabulously worded sentence using a new word choice.
Wednesday – Non-Fiction – 5 minute brainstorm of categories – space, revolutionary war, diseases – 3 minute brainstorm of specific topics in the category. Then some on-line research to use for writing.
Thursday – Opinion Partner Write – one for the other student against
Friday – “If I could Go Back in Time” – who would you want to meet – what do you think they were like, now research an aspect of their life to report.
This are my goals, which I might change because I liked some of the other writer's ideas:Thank you so much for Teachers Write! These last few weeks have been great; and like the others, I learn so much. I think this one posts me as anonymous - so, this is Kay. Besides these goals, if I was really serious about publishing anything, I would have to have a work count, but for now these are good goals below:
Monday- Do Research on a relative, or setting, or anything, read
Tuesday - Follow a Writing Prompt, read
Wednesday - Write with my AP Students, read
Thursday - Work on my own stories, read
Friday - Journaling, read
Tuesday - Follow a Writing Prompt, read
Wednesday - Write with my AP Students, read
Thursday - Work on my own stories, read
Friday - Journaling, read
Monday--Freewrite for 10 minutes
Tuesday--Write about something new you learned today.
Wednesday--Write a short book or movie review.
Thursday--Read an editorial in the paper. Write a response to it.
Friday--Choose one of your photographs and write about it. (100-200 words)
I absolutely love reading editorials but haven't quite figured out how to craft reponses quite as well as the ones in the paper and online.
Enjoyed participating in my first Teachers Write! It has inspired me to start writing.
Jane :)
Tuesday--Write about something new you learned today.
Wednesday--Write a short book or movie review.
Thursday--Read an editorial in the paper. Write a response to it.
Friday--Choose one of your photographs and write about it. (100-200 words)
I absolutely love reading editorials but haven't quite figured out how to craft reponses quite as well as the ones in the paper and online.
Enjoyed participating in my first Teachers Write! It has inspired me to start writing.
Jane :)
Goals for the Week
Thank you so much for your time. It is truly appreciated. Monday - write a poem, play around with something new Tuesday - Get to know a character. Choose a favorite activity they have and explore with your writing. Wednesday - Write about something you know, an event that has happened this week. Thursday - Develop your character through a conversation with another character. Friday - List pieces of interesting figurative language.
Tuesday- slice & comments at Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life Tuesday
Wednesday- poetry
Thursday- sentence collecting from reading
Friday- letter
Saturday- celebration post at Ruth Ayers Writes