100wc

The 100wc, a weekly, Literacy based, challenge where children are given a writing ‘prompt’ which they respond to with a 100 word piece of creative writing. They post their work onto a class Blog which is then linked to the 100wc website. Whilst they await responses the children also have the opportunity to peruse other children’s work, adding comments if they wish. Posts are many and creatively varied.

The challenges present many opportunities for writing skills development with its focus on sentence construction, paragraphing and punctuation use and the added bonus of writing for a real audience, providing a meaningful personal impetus. I can’t sing the praises of this activity enough, clearly a powerful facilitator and a vehicle for developing peer assessment and learning independence. With its phenomenal potential the 100wc can very quickly become a valuable asset and a cultivar of children’s positive learning attitudes and engagement, collaborative learning and responsible Blogging techniques.

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Additionally, the wonderful 5 Sentence Challenge is once again a valuable contributor of writing skills development this time for younger children and positively supportive of inclusion. Centring on the formation of clear, contextual and correctly punctuated sentences it provides constructive and focused encouragement enabling all children to participate and contribute imaginatively.

http://100wc.net/