All Hail the Write Like!

By Edith-Nicole Cameron

In my daughter’s eighth-grade language arts class, students are regularly tasked with reading a poem or prose selection and then completing a “write-like” assignment. In this exercise, the framework of the newly-encountered poem or prose is used as a template for the student’s original piece. The template serves as scaffolding, grounding and stabilizing the build; providing a bridge from blank page to decent rough draft.

You may no longer be in middle-school, but...