Variety of Writing Experiences Help Students See Themselves as Writers

Publication: Noozhawk
Date: May 1, 2018

Summary: Students explore local nature, museums, and sites, and visit with local writers and artists to spur a wide variety of writing with the South Coast Writing Project's Young Writers Camp.

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We in Young Writers Camp believe that young people can learn about themselves, others, and their world through the wonder of written words. We want to elicit from them the words that are within. We want them to weigh words and play with words and to be risk-takers in their writing.

Our goal is for each child to walk away thinking, "I am a writer," and to understand how to participate in a community of writers. To facilitate such writing, we follow three basic tenets stemming from current research and modeled on the summer institute of the South Coast Writing Project at UCSB."

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