Best+Practices

toc =Best Practices= In this area, please include links to examples of the great things you do in your classroom.

**ClarkWritingExperience.wikispaces.com**
I teach 8th grade grammar and writing at Horace Mann Middle School in Charleston, WV. My students are helping me write a novel, and I am using wikispaces.com as our forum for discussion. So far, the students have submitted story proposals which I then merged into one story idea. We are now in the prewriting phrase in which we are developing ideas. Soon I will take their ideas and write the first chapter. Then, they become my editors. How cool is that? They are so motivated by the opportunity to "grade" my writing! I've never done this before, so I may fall flat on my face. But, at the very beginning, I had shared with my students that I dream of writing a novel. MY writing the novel has become THEIR dream, and all they have asked is that I dedicate it to them. Wow!

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