Free Writing

In writer's workshop we've  spent the last two weeks practicing free writing. In free writing students are given the choice to work on any genre of writing that they'd like. During free writing I conference with students on their individual pieces and we work on building conventions of writing and writing habits that apply to all genres. To kick off our free writing workshop we worked on building banks of ideas. One way that we did this was by creating heart maps. We filled in our heart maps with things that we love, we do, or we know a lot about. These heart maps help us to come up with writing ideas that are important to us.