powerofstudentvoice:

This is a tool that I want to use in my future classroom in order to help my students make their writing more meaningful to them.

My goal for using this chart is to get students thinking deeply and critically about their writing. Part of my writing education philosophy entails having students develop a sense of their voice by writing creatively before writing formally. When they write creatively, students are free to experiment with words and figure out which ones they like best and which ones they’d rather never use again. Utilizing all kinds of words has the potential to expand a student’s writing and make it more meaningful to them by sparking a connection with the vast limitlessness of human language.

My hope, by using charts like this, is that students will realize they are not and should not be limited to boring words, but that their is a whole colorful vernacular at their disposal - and they are allowed to infuse their writing with their own voice and individual meaning with that vernacular. Once they realize this by experimenting with writing creatively, we can work on doing the same thing with their more formal endeavors.

(Source: artandalcohol, via gigglingbean)