Write it in front of them
Think out loud as you write a short story on the board: "Hmm, how should my character feel here?" Let kids watch you cross things out and change your mind. Seeing a grown-up revise shows kids that good writing is rewritten writing.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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