My daughter Rachel, a fourth grade teacher, had her students experience a new way to present their understanding of their subject/biography study by presenting a wax museum presentation. The students researched their subject by reading biographies and other resources. They wrote a summation that was limited to a minute or less which was [...]
A summary of Peter Johnston’s presentation on 4-5-08 podcast format.
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Notes for Words-on-the-move #5
Peter Johnston – Choice Worlds: Helping children build literate worlds worth living in classrooms.
• We as educators array people each day in the classroom through use of language.
• We say we want them to be assertive, independent strong willed people when they [...]
Words-on-the-move 08#4
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Strategies by Patrice Ball District Curriculum Specialist in English Language Arts
A p p r o a c h
Strategies
Activities
Obermeyer, Mark, 2005. When Writing Workshop Isn’t Working , Stenhouse Publishers -Chapter 10 How Do I Plan for Writing [...]
Words-on-the-move 08-#1
WSRA convention February 7-9th
Lucy Calkins presentation on Saturday Feb. 9th.
Notes that were important to me.
• Life provides the Big Ideas for writing (the subjects)
• Need to provide an environment that is conducive to writing
• Can not teach writing well alone
o Need collaboration for teaching writing –both horizontally and vertically
o Students need more than one year of good teaching in [...]
Richard Lederer in an article titled “How I Write” has this gem of a paragraph that I think is worth sharing.
“To be a writer, one must behave as writers behave. They write. And write. And write. The difference between a writer and a wannabe is that a writer is someone who can’t not write, while [...]
Writing across the Curriculum
Basic Principles of WAC
As one response to students’ lack of writing practice throughout the curriculum, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs emerged in the 1980’s. The philosophies underlying these programs generally agree on certain basic principles:
That writing is the responsibility of the entire academic community.
That writing must be integrated across departmental [...]
Ideas for Integrating Writing Across the Curriculum
(Excerpts from the MPS Expository Prompt Books)
Science: Students may:
Wirte a procedure for a science experiment
Write an informative essay about a scientist, invention, or other science-related topic
Illustrate and write captions for a scientific process
Social Studies: Students may:
Write direcions for maps, gobes, graphs, tables, etc.
Compare eras, presidents, regions, [...]
