The Write Stuff

Rebecca Giles, in her popular book, A Young Writer’s World, encourages early educators to not just teach children how to write, but to motivate them to WANT to write. She explains that helping them see themselves as writers, beginning at a very young age, will encourage a life-long love for writing.

Tomas Laurinavicius, in an online article, describes how the need to write well has grown exponentially in the recent past:
"Most folks communicate via email, text, or social media, and hence many millions of pieces of information are flowing between us through the written word every day."

And yet, while knowing how to write well is becoming increasingly important, children’s writing skills have been declining. A 2017 article in the New York Times reports: "Three-quarters of both 12th and 8th graders lack proficiency in writing, according to...a National Assessment of Educational Progress. And 40 percent of those who took the ACT writing exam in the high school class of 2016 lacked the reading and writing skills necessary to complete successfully a college-level English composition class, according to the company’s data."

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