Boy Writers

While reading the book, "Boy Writers", I noticed a real interesting quote. "Girls tend to 'attack' a writing assignment and get it done quickly. Boys, on the other hand, tend to ponder and fester about what they are going to write." I'm not real sure about all classrooms, but this is definitely not the case in my student teaching classroom. Sure, there are girls who are good writers and get theirs done quickly. However, there is a greater number of boys in the classroom who have written some fantastic pieces thus far and are more creative. Most of the boys jump right in and can write for hours. I think its all about the teacher's personal perceptions of what their students writing is to look like. We can't be biased about what writing needs to look like when the student's are expressing themselves. Let them be creative, school appropriate of course, and express themselves as writers!