Authentic Writing Opportunities

Our writing centre has been a popular place lately and we've also noticed that children are taking writing materials to different centres which is exciting.  This is exactly what we want to support and encourage:  meaningful and authentic writing opportunities.

We also think carefully of how to bring writing to other centres.  For example, we added clipboards, recipe cards, cooking magazines, etc. to our dramatic play baking centre.  We also provided opportunity for creating maps and roads at the block centre to encourage emergent writing.

We also use provocations in our classroom to inspire learning.  A provocation is an invitation to learn where educators are either looking to inspire new learning or are providing materials based on an interest from the children.  One of our most recent writing/sketching provocations is our wonder window is posted below.


Our Wonder Window provocation.


One of the children noticed the monkey bars and hill outside of our window.  We were captivated by the attention to detail.