The Writer’s Notebook was introduced to our Year 7 and 8 Literacy classes during the remote learning stage of 2020.
Our Writer’s Notebook program is based on the research of Fletcher and Portalupi who describe the Writer’s Notebook as a place “where a writer can engage in the fun, often messy job of being a writer, practising, listening, playing with language, gathering images and insights and ideas. The purpose of such a notebook is to nourish the writer … such a notebook… is one of the most essential tools of the trade.”
Our students have enthusiastically engaged in the messy process of writing and they have created some great works of literary merit.