Chapter 14

I think allowing the children to be authors is a great idea. It allows the children to have somthing to go back and read that they have created. I think the children like it when they all contribute to a story and they collaborate or they write their own stories and it gets published. I feel that children should feel like their work is important. If they write something and see it in the class library, they feel like they have contributed and their work was important enough to be read by the rest of the class. I think if the children are comfortable with their work, they can read their story to the class that they wrote and then put it in a center or the library for others to re-read. I think that if the children know their work will be published for their class to read as well as classes to come then they will want to do an extra special job to impress their fellow writers.