Chapters 6 and 11

I know we were not required to post for these chapters, but I was interested in the topics they covered. I thought it was so important in chapter 11 when the reading mentioned how students should be able to choose what they want to write about relating to a general topic. The example in the reading stated that the lesson was about descriptive writing techniques and every student had to use their five senses to describe their kitchen. However, students come from different backgrounds and should have the option to use descriptive writing techniques and their five senses in order to describe any location in the world they feel like.

In chapter 6, it was motivational to read about having faith in students during independent writing time. It is supposed to be the least structured time during the writing workshop because the students work individually on their writing. As teachers we need to teach our students how to direct their own work during a large piece of independent time during writing workshop.