Beyond Picture Book Excerpts toward Commonplace Book Collections: Exemplar Texts for Gifted Writers
July 22, 2024
Beyond Picture Book Excerpts toward Commonplace Book Collections: Exemplar Texts for Gifted Writers
Voracious reading and regular writing are the best tools to develop an affinity for excellent writing techniques. We will look at a variety of exemplar texts that demonstrate skills and techniques that authors employ and how to effectively utilize exemplars. These models help students to elevate their basic writing skills, polishing their prose and poetry. Because gifted students have advanced skills and have mastered basic proficiencies, providing excellent text exemplars is more challenging, but we need to envision the trajectory of gifted readers and writers. What is our ultimate goal?
Since the pandemic, there has been renewed interest in journaling and a resurgence of one ancient model for creating a personalized collection of exemplar texts – the Commonplace Book. Readers and writers can identify and collect high quality writing they themselves encounter by creating a Commonplace Book. Creating a collection of personalized exemplar texts is the epitome of literary engagement.