When designing your class to truly position yourself and your students as readers, writers, and thinkers, have these questions in mind.
- How am I living a writing life with my students?
- What are all of the different kinds of writers that I am being with my students over the course of the year?
- How are we writing reflectively, analytically, and creatively?
- What skills and concepts are we developing through the writing?
- How does the writing work culminate into meaningful, real-world products?
- How is coaching and mentoring part of the writing work?
- How does the writing work build and grow over time?
- How is writing work, reading work?
- How is writing a source of play?
- How am I connecting my students to other writers?
- What resources do we have at our disposal to support the writing-based work?
- How are we evaluating writing in ways that gets at the craft of the writing and that reveals and builds off of the strong moves that my students are making in their writing?