My reaction to this chapter was to get my own children to sit and write something. I read with them everyday and while I look for opportunities for them to write ( my daughter never turn down an opportunity to text someone...anyone)- I don't ask them to write as often as I should. My daughter is attending the Missouri Writing Project children's camp next week. So, she'll get additional opportunities to write this summer. My son, on the other hand, is at home and I need to come up with emergent writing activities for him.
My mind jumped to this because I believe some issues with writing fluency involve our lack of experience with writing when compared to reading. Without time set aside to write, my own children won't become comfortable with it and the assigned writing work becomes more and more difficult. Boice mentioned free-writing briefly in the article which I use a lot with my own children because it is open and they can be successful with however they write. He then returned to the planning part and the gap in between planning and writing. I am still working on this myself- I'll figure out how to translate an appropriate plan to a seven year old after I am successful.
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