For Educators
Writerly Play is a toolkit that uses story theatre techniques, gameful learning, and visual thinking strategies to help writers build creative thinking skills and strengthen their writing craft. Through the process, writers gain the social and emotional skills that thoughtful creative development offers: self awareness and self compassion, empathy, a sense of belonging, and the creative confidence that comes from meaningfully being able to contribute.
Coaching for your grade-level team.
Writerly Play is a toolkit that supports many common writing curriculums, including Writer’s Workshop. In your grade-level coaching sessions, I’ll support your team in customizing a plan to activate writing lessons with movement, visualization, and other creativity-sparking tools to ignite joy, can-do optimism, and an authentic desire to learn and grow for all of your writers, enthusiastic and reluctant alike.
Bring active learning into your writing classroom.
Writerly Play offers an untraditional doorway into the writing process. Through a variety of games and activities, your writers will take action and tackle various genres of writing. Writerly Play utilizes games to facilitate creative and critical thinking at every stage of the process, from idea generation to idea development, to drafting and revision, and even through the sharing of work.
An Invitation to Society of Young Inklings
Would you like Writerly Play resources for your classroom? Did you know that Society of Young Inklings offers free a educator subscription, packed full of Writerly Play goodies? Whether you’re an artist in residence, a classroom teacher, a librarian, or any other kind of teacher, we’d love to have you join us.
To kick off your subscription, educators receive Quick Start to Writerly Play, a guide that will help you implement Writerly Play in your classroom.
Mark Your Calendar for Next Year’s Inklings Book Contest
Whether your students write stories or poems or both, whether their words are funny, heartfelt, imaginative, or true-to-life, there’s a place for them in Society of Young Inklings’ annual Inklings Book Contest. Every 3rd-12th grade writer who enters receives encouraging, personalized feedback. We also provide free online resources to support them in preparing their creative work. Submissions are accepted between January 15 and March 15 each year.
