Children: Authors

Hi there, it's me, Bettina at Will and welcome to

the module and Children.

As writers, I was really compelled to create this module

and to share it with you because there's a reason

why I think we need to learn how to write.

And essentially it comes and was down to our need

to communicate whether it is.

We're writing a business plan, a short story, a novel,

a blog, an email, a letter.

We all need to know certain elements and we all

need to know how and why we need to communicate

these ideas and what better way when to start in

the early years when we can still find so much

joy. It's a joyful thing to be able to to

know how it is.

You can express yourself through descriptions and through words that

are just rich with color and rich with the words

that happened to the different senses.

And it takes a lot of time and a lot

of practice and a lot of process to be able

to write.

So just like art, where we focus on the process

of doing it compared to what the outcome or the

product would be.

Writing can also be the same way.

So welcome again to the module as Children as writers.

In this video, I will walk you through the different

elements of what we can use as our guides and

our our promise to writing with Children are too giving

Children the opportunity to be able to write.

And then I will conclude this with several examples from

what we have been writing over the years.

So welcome again to Children ask writers, Okay, here we

go. I wholeheartedly believe that Children are really authors of

their own story.

And so this module celebrates Children's voice through the art

of written word and visual cues.

There's a reason why we need to spend some time

on this.

Oftentimes we go to school and we learn to write

and we follow, we follow our teachers or we follow

worksheets and this is how we learn to write.

And it takes away our own pursuit and our own

creativity on finding that journey and finding what it is

that we love to write about when in essence writing

is all about communication and and if we can communicate

ourselves clearly then we can be able to write this

clearly. And this is a skill and this skill is

a process.

And this process can start from the joyful acts of

writing for the sake of writing and being able as

a space to be able to be creative.

So it allows Children to express themselves, to explore the

social and emotional aspects as they recreate their characters, they

write about their characters, they unfold their characters.

And then it allows Children to see the purpose of

writing and reading in their own lives.

It integrates so many different learning areas.

So this is a great way.

We can integrate the sciences, the maths, music and so

many other learning domains into the written word.

And we can intentionally aimed as to highlight that way

Children voice their learning processes because at the end of

the day the most important people here are the learners.

What they get out of this and what they make

out of it is what is so important.

And if we're going to spend some time with them

we might as well make things with them or allow

them to make things or to write things where they

will get something out of.

So C.

S. Lewis, famous author is famous for saying you can

make anything by writing.

Now let's walk through a few elements of writing with

Children. So the first thing we want to know is

that we want to be considerate of the skills of

the Children their interests and the level of enthusiasm when

it comes to writing.

Do they like writing sentences or do they shy away

from any writing exercises?

So we need to be considerate of where the learners

are at.

We want to reaffirm Children and their sense of expression,

so how they express themselves when they write today.

Like writing stories today, like using their imaginations, we want

to be able to capture this through words and even

if it will meet us doing all the writing to

begin with, that's totally okay.

We also want to prompt Children with visual reminders.

So writing can also be a really great way to

visually remind Children of what's happening next or what they

should be doing or what is expected of them.

And it also promotes Children's agency.

So this clearly shows how Children really are also intellectual

beings and they when they are developmentally ready and when

they already can embark on a really fun writing journey.

And it doesn't have to be stressful, it doesn't have

to be forced.

It doesn't have to be a teacher led.

It can be it can come from them in the

most and the easiest ways problem able.

So I will be sharing the samples with you later

and then we also have to highlight how it's about

the process.

Sometimes we'll come out with really good products such as

a whole book the Children might be able to write,

but sometimes it might just be a draft or a

brainstorm. But it's really a process and there's so many

processes when it comes to writing and that's something we

need to get through a swell when it's not just

art, That's a process, but it's also writing.

So um eat gallantry says the most difficult thing about

writing is writing the first line, but there's so many

books, so little time says frank zappa and don't read

books. Make presses assess me.

So where do we start first?

We need to find the purpose of what the book

or what it is.

You want Children to write?

Do you want Children to be able to know their

alphabets? Do you want do you want your child to

understand their emotions or do you want to see how

how deep your child's understanding of emotions are?

It really depends on what it is your Children or

your child is most interested in where you are at,

at this moment in life, what you're learning and what

and what is what are the skills?

Sometimes it might just be mark making.

Sometimes it might just be being part of the process

and not really doing anything which is being part of

it. Sometimes it might be doing most of the work.

So we really want to make sure that we know

the purpose behind it.

And then we organize and we curate the materials.

So are you you saying things that you're up cycling?

Like making an alphabet book from up cycled single use

packaging? Or are you making an emotions book?

Or are you making an art book or a family

book? You want to organize and have the materials ready?

And then you do this at the same time as

brainstorming, if it is a short story you're making, you

can make a story pyramid, you write down your ideas

and then you can start by drawing, cutting out pictures

and then you re create, you put the pages together

and easily you can find it.

Mhm. So binding things together, putting them together, creating this

book. Like feel it's one of the most fun and

fun and great experiences that we have as Children to

create their own books.

And at the same time that it gives us the

sense of agency that we we know we can and

there are some really great ways of finding.

You can simply just buying by stapling or punching holes

and allowing the Children to thread it through.

Or you can put a fastener, there's so many great

ways to find.

And once it's bound together and you spend a lot

of time in doing it, You read it together and

then you can revisit, reading it again and again throughout

the years.

So, these are things you don't just make out of,

you know, for one purpose only for grade perhaps or

whatnot. But these are things you can revisit and the

great thing about revisiting it as we get a new

set of eyes when we see it again and again

and this continues the writing process.

So, a great thing to know about writing processes, that

everything is also part of it.

And revisiting scene where we, what we lacked and what

we can do gives us a mental framework of what

we can do the next time.

So, in the next part of this video, I will

show you the different things that we have written over

the years and explain the elements in place.

I'll see you all very soon.

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