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Unlocking Opportunitiesthrough Reading, Thinking,

and Writing about NonfictionNancy Steineke

IRC Wired Wednesday Webinar April 12, 2017

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Oral language probably started to develop around 100,000 years ago.

Written languagewas conceivedaround 3200 BC, a little over 5000 years ago.

Why is writingSO hard?


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The brain has specialized areas ONLY for spoken language.


Areas of the brain MUST BE RECRUITED for reading and writing! –David Sousa

“Fascinating Revelations in How the Brain Learns to Read” December 14, 2016

Writing Involves Risk!

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The Writing Wounded

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Though well intended, our grading and commenting often discourages writers.

Instead, we need to create opportunities for students to SAFELY share and discuss their writing with others on a regular basis. Steineke.IRC Wired Wednesday

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MOST CCSS – DERIVED STANDARDS

Narrow the Range of Writing Tasks

• Heavy emphasis on occasional, extended,

high-stakes reports and essays

• Full writing process steps and stages

• Polished and public final graded work

• Passing reference to “shorter research

projects” and shorter “seatings”

• No mention of “writing to learn”


WRITING STANDARDS

TOO LOW?

Kids need far more writing practice

than the CCSS calls for.

Quick writing about curriculum

content 5, 7, 12 times a day.

More than teachers could ever read,

much less grade.


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If we limit kids’ writing to the amount that we have time to read – or to grade – we become a bottleneck in their development.


We must have faith in the unmonitored practice that undergirds so much learning.

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Short Substantial

Spontaneous Planned

Exploratory Authoritative

Informal Conventional

Limited Sharing Public

One-draft Multi-draft

Unedited Edited

Ungraded Assessable

WRITING TO LEARN vs PUBLIC WRITING


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Quick andEasy-to-Implement Nonfiction Writing Strategies


“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”

What are your thoughts, reaction to this quote?Fill the card’s front!


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Quote is from a speech given by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953.


What questions doyou have about this statement?

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”

Share your most interesting question!


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1869

Library of Congress


As you view a section of the image, what do you SEE, THINK, or WONDER?


Take a moment on your own to write a title for this political cartoon.


Re-imagining the Text with Tableaux

TABLEAUX ELEMENTS• Tight composition

• Multiple levels

• Facing audience

• Exaggerated facial expression—statue reflects emotion

• Exaggerated gestures


Thoreau: It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Moneyis not required to buy one necessary of the soul.


Accountable ViewingAccountable Viewing

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Taking on

Alternative

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Who might be

the readers of

this article?


Choose one of the roles

we just listed and—in

character—annotate as

if you were that role.

What would that

person/character think?

How would they react to

this information?


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30

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•What story is this piece

telling?

•How is the artist attempting

to shape the viewer’s

impressions?

•What choices did the artist

make to shape the story

depiction?


Quick Write: Micro Non-Fictions

TEXT From? To?

SIX WORD MEMOIR Distill the essence of the

topic/experience in only six words. “For sale: baby shoes,

never worn.” Ernest Hemingway

TWEET 140 characters or less (including

handles/hashtags)

BREAKING NEWS Bulletin, Current Update, News Alert


What Micro

Non-Fictions might

these characters

(people or objects)

write?


How do we manage

the paper load?

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• Kids have to write way more than we can read.

• Writers need an audience, but it doesn’t have

to be us!

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What Makes Writing Easier?

STUDENTS engage in short, authentic

writing tasks every day, in every class

with subject-matter content.

STUDENTS’ WRITING is used during

class to advance the lesson.

STUDENTS’ WRITING is used to build

relationships with others.

TEACHERS assign more writing than

they can read; they trust in

unmonitored practice.

STUDENTS WRITE with an eye towards

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