This project's essential question: How can we better bridge the gap between home and school through meaningful writing assignments that involve students and their families?

Hello, my name is Kim Polson, and I am the WritingFix Coordinator of this new page of lessons and ideas for teachers.  In my fifth-grade classroom, I often require my students to interact with their families as part of writing assignments. I believe some of the best writing my students do is from this type of assignment, and I am confident I am positively affecting my students' relationships with their family members.

Parents should take an interest in their children's school work, and when you assign a meaningful writing assignment that requires families to sit, talk, perhaps even do the writing together, discoveries are made.

On this page at WritingFix, I will be featuring several of my own "Family Writing Projects," and I will be gathering and featuring family writing projects from many of my Northern Nevada teaching colleagues. If you are interested in proposing your own "Families Write" lesson to be posted here, please take a look at our Proposal Form. We'll send you a free classroom resource, if your proposal is accepted.