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Writer's Notebooks are an essential tool for writers. When you divide your Writer's Notebooks into sections, be sure to make a tab for Free Writes. Here's the how and why of free writes!

Students in all grade levels can have writers notebooks. Anyone hoping to write more can use a writer's notebook as a place to gather ideas.
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Dialogue for Character Development - Writer's Notebooks

This Deck shares how to get started with writer's notebooks and free writing. I've used this with students at the beginning of the school year but it's also great for anyone who wants to write and get their creative juices flowing!

Writer's Notebooks gives student writers the opportunity to gather story ideas any time and anywhere. Free writing is a way to release all those ideas. This deck shares how free writing is about focusing on the content and letting ideas flow.

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Writer's Notebooks

Living the Life of a Writer
Writer's Notebooks are an essential tool for writers. When you divide your Writer's Notebooks into sections, be sure to make a tab for Free Writes. Here's the how and why of free writes!

Students in all grade levels can have writers notebooks. Anyone hoping to write more can use a writer's notebook as a place to gather ideas.

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Living the Life of a Writer
Free Writes are a great way to get ideas out of your brain and onto paper. From there you can take your writing through the writing process.

What does it mean
to be a writer?

I love to ask student writers this question, "What does it mean to be a writer?" Most students think writers need good ideas. Which is partly true...but even the best writer has some not-so-great ideas. There' s power in having lots of ideas so you can pick and choose the best.

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Writers face the blank page all the time. But free writing helps us not be afraid to face a blank page.

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Essentially, writers have the job of making something out of nothing. But it doesn't have to be a daunting experience to fill a blank page.

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