Workshops – Writing Through the Curriculum (Primary, Intermediate, Middle School)

A practical, hands-on workshop to help in the teaching of writing as contrasted with the giving of writing assignments. Based on what research says works, participants will experience a variety of use tomorrow strategies for helping students to become competent writers.

TOPICS TO BE EXPLORED:

The reading/writing connection

Generating a reading journal

Written responses to literature that are:

-Interpretative
-Analytic
-Evaluative
-Reflective

Helping students to extend ideas and make connections to related topics

Questioning strategies to stretch student thinking

Producing a report with an organizing structure appropriate to a specific purpose

Writing opportunities on the Internet

ABC writing patterns (primary)

The writing process (pre writing, drafting, revising, editing, sharing)

Playing with sentences (vocabulary substitution, expanding sentences, rearranging sentences, sentence reduction)

Pattern books as springboards to writing

Using inductive reasoning in writing a mystery

Developing the characters, setting and plot of a story

Storyboards (a great way to rehearse before writing)

Poetry writing patterns from the masters

Writing and performing readers theatre

Springboards to writing to persuade, to describe, to inform.

How to produce a clearly written, well developed research report with NO copying

Research reporting patterns

Elaboration as a writing tool

This workshop can be offered as a one or two day workshop. An optional one semester hour of graduate credit from Lindenwood University is available for two day workshops.