What do you think?
• How do we motivate our students to write?
• How do we provide our students with authentic writing experiences?
• How do we move away from the "audience of one" (AKA you, the teacher) mentality?
• Gallagher (2006) Teaching Adolescent Writers
o Atwell (2002) Lessons that change writers
• Maxwell, Allyn and Bacon (1996) Writing Across the Curriculum
Research
The Write Audience in the Classroom
• How does this look in a real classroom?• How does a teacher plan for real
audiences?• What does a student example look like?
Make three lists and write as many things as you can think of that apply to each list.
• List 1: The Things I Write for Only Me
• List 2: The Things I Write for a Few to See
• List 3: The Things I Write for a Large Audience to See
Quick-Write
Current Lesson/Unit
Standard(s) covered
Thought-provoking reading(s)
Meaningful Writing
Aligned Conventions
Authentic Audience
Critical Reading
Reading Literature &
Writing
And Then There Were
None
Mock trial preparations
Quotation marks
Peers as trial participants, teacher as judge, andcommunity
members as jurors
Planning Template
Planning Template
Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri.
Introduce Amazon Book Review
Pass out parent permission letter
Read Amazon Book Reviews
Introduce Book Review Rubric
Outline Book Reviews
Draft Book Reviews
Publish book reviews to our class blog
Planning Templates
Standard Big Question
Meaningful Writing
Aligned Conventions
Mentor Text Authentic Audience
Writing Why do you like or dislike a book?
Amazon Book Review
Spelling Amazon Book Reviews
Amazon website viewers
Writing Medium
Supplies Audience
Amazon Book Review
• Access to Amazon account (parent’s or own)
• Computer with Internet access• Word processing program• Reading book• Amazon alternative template• Parent permission letter
Amazon website viewers
Student Example• This review is from: Winning Balance:
What I've Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams (Hardcover)
• When I first saw this book on a shelf at my local library I grasped it and knew I had to get it. Shawn Johnson and other gymnasts have always interested me, never being a gymnast myself it was exhilarating to read this book and live a life I have never experienced. I had never known much about Shawn Johnson before reading this book,I had seen her in commercials but I had never heard her story...
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