WELCOME!

=Welcome to LikeToWrite! = Quite a few years ago my friends told me I had to apply to the National Writing Project at UNC Charlotte. I had to take their 5-week Institute on writing. I have to admit, I went kicking and screaming! Who wanted to spend most of the summer learning to write and teach writing? I wasn't a writer. I never even had one writing course. Scared. That's what I was. And, I had 2 babies, 3 and 1. Somehow, I managed to arrange the details.

The Institute changed me from a product-seeking teacher to a process-seeking, reflective teacher in every subject and in all areas of my life. I discovered that if I wrote, even a little bit, even a few minutes a week, I knew how to teach writing. The next year, my students and I shared how to even find a topic, what persuaded others to believe us, how wonderful it is to receive affirmation. We were in this challenge together. If you had told me then that I would have authored two Web sites and co-authored a book and published articles in teacher journals, I would have laughed.

YOU
If you ever said to yourself, I hate to write... I hate teaching writing... Heck! I even hate reading student writing, then this site can help you change that. Begin by writing. Choose something you care about - wine, your family, travel, your life. Keep a very small notebook with you and write while you're waiting. Read the links and books on the pages of this Wiki. Try out some lessons. Talk to others. Observe colleagues. See if you and your students don't eventually LikeToWrite. //Karen Haag//

This site is maintained by Karen Dawson Haag, author of [|www.liketowrite.com] and [|www.liketoread.com] and [|www.Facebook.com/liketowrite]. Karen also co-authored //[|Thinking Out Loud On Paper].//