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Here Comes The Tweeting Craze

Today I introduced my literacy group to the possibility to connect with their favourite authors and was pleasantly surprised with their response. Writing has been hard going as I have been trying make sure to connect with the children who need it and give them enough feedback to make their writing valuable. With 32 children to manage I can appreciate how my own primary school teacher managed.

So last night I prepared a short slideshow of past tweeting and a page explaining the requirements.


I also collected a list of authors and their twitter usernames.


The excitement started early as my students spotted the twitter username list and started to make the connection with what we are doing. It only escalated as some of my students saw the names of their new favourite authors I have introduced them to.

We raced through the introduction lead by the kids excitement before getting into writing our questions. Once they had written their question they counted their characters before giving me their finalised question on a twitter template. At the end of the time I had at least one question from each child. Some of them writing 3 or 4 questions desperate to ask questions from all of the authors they like.



The next job is the tweet all the questions out then hope for some replies. There is nothing like the excitement of a child when they get a response it's like seeing them open a Christmas present and I will always enjoy it. Check out some of our questions here: Twitter.

Tweet Count
James Dashner: 1
Scott Cawthon: 2
R.L.Stine: 7
Jeff Kinney: 4
Scott Westerfeld: 4
Judy Blume: 1
Rick Riordan: 1
J.K.Rowling: 1
Gabrielle Lord: 1
David Williams: 1
Bear Grylls: 2

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