Today I’m working with a literacy coach and one thing we’re going to study is how to help students reflect on their writing. So I thought I’d take a moment to do some reflecting on my Slice of Life writing so far.
I’m a writer who has written poems, lists, and reflections on growing up as a Taiwanese-American, my family, my dog (who is also family).
I’m a writer who likes to write with humor at times and about hard topics too. I like to write personal essays.
I’m a writer who worries about my unclear sentence structure and the words I tend to skip that never get noticed until after I hit publish.
I’m a writer who feels proud of writing something every day and trying different genres like poetry.
I’m a writer who has struggled with using too many parentheses (see above) and finding focus.
I’m a writer who wants to try a six word memoir, to be more descriptive, and to learn from others doing this challenge.
I used the sentence stems from the book Teaching Writers to Reflect: Strategies for a More Thoughtful Writing Workshop by Anne Elrod Whitney, Colleen McCracken, and Deana Washell.
15 responses to “Writing Reflection”
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I love this format here! I’m bookmarking it for a possible idea to use with some of my loveys. One thing I love in particular about your writing? The way you start off expressing your fondness for poetry and lists – both of which strike me because it seems precisely what you’ve done with this piece. (I say this as a writer who also loves poetry, and lists, and parentheses, and perhaps the comma, and probably elipses…)
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I love this piece! I wrote a “why I write” piece at the beginning of the year (a challenge from my local national writing project co-op) that reminds me of this thinking. Maybe this would help your kiddos too? Here’s mine for an example! Happy writing and reflecting!
Why Do I Write?
I write because…
I want to remember
I want to forget.
I want to be listened to and heard
To make connections
And to have tangible value
I want to inspire
But also feed my ego
I want to create
I want to contribute
I want to escape
I want to keep romance alive
I want to explore
I write because I want my students to write and I want their words to be valued too
I write because I want to be available, even when I’m not-
Thanks for sharing!
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A great exercise – and powerful thoughts around being a writer. It frames goals and channels effort and energy. It’s so important to acknowledge what you want to accomplish, and what you “worry” about as well. That reflection on writing – yours as well as the students’- is bueatiful empowering work!
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