One of my favorite activities involves in encouraging young writers.  I enjoy visiting schools and working with teachers, either coordinating something they’re teaching or planning my own workshop.  It’s rewarding to see youngsters become excited about writing stories, poetry, plays, essays and often illustrating them.

Youngsters work at various speeds and with differing degrees of inspiration.  When you can get a youngster, who professes to hate writing, turned around so he/she enjoys it, that’s a height of joy for a teacher.  Because I’m also a teacher (doing solely substitute teaching now), I can keep up with what teachers are teaching about writing and what’s expected of the students.

In future posts, I shall be giving some writing suggestions and prompts for young writers and hope I inspire them.

(Amazon image; click image for details)

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

Post from: Blisstree

Mary Emma’s Writing Activities for Young Writers