Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers....

38
Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
  • date post

    22-Dec-2015
  • Category

    Documents

  • view

    223
  • download

    0

Transcript of Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers....

Page 1: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Puget Sound Writing ProjectUniversity of Washington

Teachers are the best teachers

of teachers.

Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Page 2: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Page 3: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Student write more when their teachers write, too.

Page 4: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Low-stakes vs high stakes

What are the characteristics of high-stakes writing?

How about low stakes writing?

Page 5: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

What is an essay, anyway?

An analytical or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view

Something resembling a composition (photographic)

Page 6: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Why write?

Well, you can put more things on paper then what you can say out loud. Even to a friend. I’ve said more things to a piece of paper than I would ever say to my friend.

Eighth grade student

The Journal Book

Page 7: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Free Writing

Page 8: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

The Power of Listing

Page 9: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

The List of Lists

Page 10: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

A sixth grader’s list

Page 11: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

What grade is this student in?

Page 12: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Janine’s Double List

Page 13: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
Page 14: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Free write after List #2

Page 15: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
Page 16: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Clustering/ Webbing

Another idea

Starting idea

Related idea

Related idea

Related ideaRelated

idea

Related idea

Another idea

Page 17: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Me-Maps

Page 18: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Another Me-map

Page 19: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

One response to “space”

Page 20: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Another view of sapce

Page 21: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
Page 22: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Another form of Me-map

Page 23: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Writing to an Audience

• Start small – have the audience be one person.

• Dialogue Journals

• Buddy Journals

Page 24: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Dialogue Journal

Page 25: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Buddy Journal

Page 26: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Gina and Stephanie

Page 27: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Close Observation

Page 28: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

From a fifth grader’s science journal

Page 29: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Show, Don’t Tell

Page 30: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Taxonomy

• Classification, especially of plants and animals

• An orderly way to concurrently collect and classify information

Page 31: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Use your senses

I seeI hearI smellI touchI taste

Page 32: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

And don’t forget

I think I feel

I rememberI know

Page 33: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Revising – WOWS and WONDERS

Share work with a writers group or a partner:

WOW

-- I like, I think, I felt

WONDER

-- I wonder

Page 34: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Recursive Revision

Revision means --

To see again.

Page 35: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Recursive Revision

• Revision tricks -- let the piece rest while you rest -- check for “was, is, are, were, etc.”

• Join, or create, a writers group

• Write a one-sentence premise

Page 36: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Editing

• Editing can mean looking for usage and punctuation errors.

• Editing can mean reading it with your specific audience in mind. This can lead back to revision.

• State the “premise” in one sentence• Read it aloud• Read it backwards.

Page 37: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Publicare – make it public

• Anthology• Read around• Authors chair• Authors café• Send it to an agent or publciation• Other?

Page 38: Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Celebrate