Monday, March 9, 2015

More typing from first-graders


Here's some more delightful typewritten prose from Brad Coulter's first-grade class in Kirkland, Washington. Brad has collected it in three short books:





Among the highlights:






Thanks to Mr. Coulter and the authors!




5 comments:

  1. Ah, I can see those little imaginations being fired!

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  2. Those books are worth a look, thanks. Let me guess by your new wallpaper, you have been daydreaming about Lexikons in meetings again!

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    1. We’re having a great run. The kids are as obsessed with typewriters as I am. I’m convinced that young children are better off on typewriters over computers: the instant feedback, the sound, the touch, the stuff you all know. I’ve never had a class write like this, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence. Half of my kids now own typewriters. There’s talk of a type-in at a local library in April.

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  3. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Richard.

    Some of my favorite writing is randomly spewed nonsense typed by friends playing with my typewriter, producing a page of their own. I'm pretty sentimental about those types of typed notes.

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    1. Typewriter poetry! Love your blog, and that Oldenburg menu. One of the kids in my class has a pink Royal.

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