This blog has been created by a group of us that are dual majors: Elementary Education and Writing Arts. Through out this blog we have found many interesting articles, videos, new stories, and personal stories that have been related to the Education World in some way; however, we really have not focused any attention on writing. Since we are Writing Arts majors, we must enjoy writing in some aspects and writing is a crucial factor for our children to develop skills that they need to take with them for life.
On EducationWorld.com an article was written focusing on daily writing within school and it improving students skills and abilities. They article discusses how it allows students to work on sentence structures without having to be graded and even helps special education students who have trouble communicating language. The teachers have seen improvements in students writing along with changes in behaviors. The daily journals have allowed the students to focus more clearly, prepare them for the lessons of the day and even improved writing skills that students may lack in the beginning of the school year. Furthermore, teachers have seen improvements on academic work that students turn in; as one teacher puts it “it is more fluent with less think time” and their writing ”runs more smoothly”.
The article is every interesting and it is such a simple idea that has many positive attributes to it. And it only takes 5 – 10 minutes a day!
