I had also read that The Boxcar Children series is still very popular among kids despite having started in the 1940s.As the book was first published 70 years ago, I was expecting it to be somewhat old-fashioned and sexist. To some degree this is true.
Then I ask the. students to write informally about their names. This 'journal writing, which is always the first step in preparation for an essay, gives the. students the freedom to record their immediate thoughts and feelings.
In the brain, the process involves: 1  Synthesizing a thought, e.g., writing a story about what you did last weekend, such as going to the park. 2  Working out how you are going to write it: I . . . ran . . . fast . . . in 3  . The physical act of writing; getting those words and physically writing them.