Writer's Notebook

Welcome to the Writer's Notebook Learning Space.

What is a Writer's Notebook?

A writer’s notebook is a tool for helping our students grow into lifelong writers. It is where students capture observations, reactions, ideas, questions, memories, quotes, sketches, lists, or snippets of language. It is a place to experiment, collect, and hold on to thinking.

A writer’s notebook is NOT a diary where the writer retells events from his/her life, nor is it a reading journal where the writer would summarise or react to texts he/she has read. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer. A writer’s notebook is nothing more than a blank book, but within those pages you’ve got a powerful tool for writing across any genre using ideas from photos, pictures, personal events and writing seed ideas.

Choose a genre of writing below to explore some seeds!