Students showed a high level of engagement when a visiting author encouraged them to change the size, colour and style of the text to reflect the words being used: for example, “enormous, blue eyes.” This gives me an idea to try sometime this term. I wonder if changing the font etc on interesting words will encourage children to include more words???
Yes I have a few children who started thinking that way when they are writing in their draft books, making shaped words - it does sometimes distract them from the writing though - slows them down. Which is more important - THem enjoying the writing process and taking longer, or them being getting it finished?
Students showed a high level of engagement when a visiting author encouraged them to change the size, colour and style of the text to reflect the words being used: for example, “enormous, blue eyes.”
ReplyDeleteThis gives me an idea to try sometime this term. I wonder if changing the font etc on interesting words will encourage children to include more words???
I thought that as well changing font colour, size or shape to encourage writing more interesting words in hand written stories as well as typed.
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Yes I have a few children who started thinking that way when they are writing in their draft books, making shaped words - it does sometimes distract them from the writing though - slows them down. Which is more important - THem enjoying the writing process and taking longer, or them being getting it finished?
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