Support Young Writers for Be an Author Month #EdChat

 

Figma and Book Creator have collaborated on an amazing project that is worth checking out if you want to dive deep into supporting your students as writers. You can click the image to be taken to the book they created that provided all of the details on the event and contest.

As someone who has written a few books, getting started with anything can be very tough. As a student, I would stare at blank pages and know I have a story in me, but I had not idea how to get over the hump in my brain and let the words spill out. A teacher always told us to read when we were stuck with writing and the ideas would pour out of us onto the paper when we are filled with ideas. Sometimes that worked, but others times, I still had a blank sheet of paper in front of me late at night. Have taught ELA for over 15 years, I know that this is still true for students. Sometimes, students just need a little nudge in the right direction and the idea will flow. I was thinking about this when I saw the Be an Author Month posts and thought about how much I would have wanted to do this as a kid, but I would have been terrified on how to get started. I just needed something to get the ball rolling and I think I might have built something using SchoolAI Spaces that would have helped me tell the stories I wanted to tell. 

Here is a Space I prompted that can help guide students through the creative process to build their story without writing it for them. You can take my Space, remix it, connect your standards, and edit however you want to fit the needs for your students. This is a wonderful way to make creative writing more accessible to students who struggle take the ideas out of their head and getting them on paper. 

Utilizing AI to make various projects, assignments, classwork, etc. more accessible for our students is such a quick win. I highly encourage you to take the time and use the Space to help those students who have a story to tell and just need a little help to tell it. 

Hugs and High Fives, 

NP