📑 Writer’s Notebook: 5 myths to debunk

Narissa Leung unpacks five myths about writer’s notebooks:

1. Having a writer’s notebook automatically improves student writing.
2. There’s one correct way to use a writer’s notebook.
3. Students can have complete freedom when using a writer’s notebook.
4. The writer’s notebook is only useful for ‘collecting seeds.’
5. It’s either notebooks or genre instruction- you can’t do both.

This is a useful provocation for thinking about the purpose behind strategies such as writer’s notebook.

Leung also shares a collection of prompts.

It is interesting to consider this alongside blogging and something like Stephen Downes’ post on where his blogging ideas come from.