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Reply to "Lucy Calkins Writing Curriculum"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are any of the PPs teachers who have used the program?[/quote] I am one. For students who have mastered the basic skills of writing, it could be a great creative writing course. But any type of readers writers workshop takes up an awful lot of time and energy to have students brainstorm draft create revise peer edit… All to produce just one piece of writing in a long period of time. So students don’t get a lot of practice writing, and those who are weaker writers don’t get a lot of practice writing harder words and longer sentences. Students also get to write creatively, which is great for creative writing but horrible practice for answering a prompt. So it’s not that the creative writing lessons are bad, just that they don’t provide enough practice in foundational skills. The curriculum could be used well with a group of advanced elementary students, or even remedial students if it wasn’t their only writing instruction.[/quote]
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