Summer PD: Helping Students Nudge Ideas into Writing Projects

Teachers often tell me that their students are stunted when it comes to developing individual ideas for their own writing. And sometimes this is true. But, more often than not, I think what teachers (and students) mean when they bemoan not having ideas is actually that they don’t have writing projects in mind.

Most writers — even those in our classroom — have ideas. I could write about Fortnite. I could write about Across the Spiderverse. I could write about my grandmother. I could write about camping with my family.

What’s more abstract is how to turn those ideas into actual pieces of writing that have a form and structure and spread out across pages.

That’s why I developed this PD.

If your student truly struggle with coming up with topics, there is a sister PD session for that.

Happy learning, friends! Leave your questions and ideas and commentary below, as always. I adore the conversations we have here.