Jamye's+ideas+about+comprehension

Ray separates writing into two categories: writing for life and composition. Writing for life is the formulaic writing that includes lists, applications, day planners, etc. Composition, however, is the created writing that communicates to an audience. This type of writing requires organization, structure, thoughtful planning toward the response you how to invoke from your audience. This type of writing is crafted through practice and revision. This is the difficult writing we are hoping to teach our students to not only excel at, but to love. Ray suggests we encourage this type of writing through writing workshops. By putting aside class time to write, we are showing our students the importance of the writing itself. We are also encouraged to write outside of the curriculum so we can model that the writing is the reason we write. This composition comes from some place deeper than the grocery list, and in order to pass this craft on to our students, we have to help them make time in their lives to write.