Katherine Bomer never disappoints when she delivers a keynote address or a workshop. I cannot count how many times I’ve been fortunate enough to sit in the audience and soak up the wonderful things she has to say about working with children, honoring them for who they are, and nurturing them as writers.
The keynote address Bomer delivered at the Writing Institute this morning was entitled “What Can We Do About the Kid Who _______?” Dramatic Ways to Help Every Student Shine, Feel Safe, and Desire to Write and Revise and Write Again. Her speech was about working with all kinds of kids who put up a wall and seem resistant to writing. (Those kids range from the one who says “I’m done!” quickly to the one who writes about the same thing over and over again to the child who doesn’t have anything to say.) Bomer presented “big, crazy, radical ideas” to figuring out how to embrace all of the writers in our classroom. Here are my notes from the session, which include her amazing ideas.
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Filed under: Katherine Bomer, tcrwp, writers, writing
‘embiggen’ … is that a word?
Vicki: Shockingly, it is a word. It’s a slang word for “to make larger” or “to increase the size of.”
Thanks so much for these notes. I believe every word and ALWAYS appreciate hearing it. Thanks, too, for allowing us to be there with you during a summer we can’t be. I appreciate it!!!
Was it Ralph Fletcher that said first you make a mess and then you clean it up!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your experiences at the institute this week. I’m living vicariously through your posts.
@Susan: I’m not sure who said that. However, it’s a good piece of writing advice.
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