Here’s the follow up to my last blog about 6th
grader Cody Wilson, the thoughtful, original and witty writer I’ve been working
with since he was in second grade.
At first we
started writing comic books that he also illustrated – action adventure stories
with elaborate battle strategies. As Cody developed his skills, depending on the mood of the day, we alternated between exploring what
makes a story a story and the fundamental yet not so fundamental variety of
ways to use the tools of writing such as image, sentence structure, and figurative
language. Along the way we discussed
what he was reading and practiced levels of interrogation of that
material. Each writing session involves
combining recent experiences with a focus on a theme and a prompt.
I’m so
excited for his first publication, a one page spread in our very own Moonshine
Ink!
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