Kieu's Graves reflection

Personally, I enjoy writing and reading. I like the brainstorming and drafting processes. Like nine-year-old Brian (and Greg), I do a lot of cutting and pasting when writing. I jump all over the place and I rarely write in chronological order. Yet, I have almost always preferred math over writing, both the teaching and learning of it. In my mind, it is more difficult to teach students to work with words than it is to work with numbers. I am quite nervous about teaching writing to students. The stories that I have read make it all sound so simple, but is teaching writing really that easy? How do we encourage our students to enjoy writing?