tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76603797865151317052024-03-13T07:01:52.950-07:00Essentials of WritingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-29096097998053164672018-03-08T07:30:00.002-08:002018-03-08T07:30:25.454-08:00Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Take a look at the last section in Regie's text, Writing Essentials, it's chock full of great resources!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Teaching in Action: Lesson Essentials 5 Day Lesson Plans & Appendices</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Secrets of Second Graders• Heart Poems• Procedural writing• Hero writing• Persuasive writing• Appendix survey</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Be sure to look through this section. If you haven’t already done so, look at Appendix A (page A-2.) Re-examine your beliefs about writing by re-reading the statements about the writing process and marking true or false in your book. Did you change any of your previous answers? Would you consider bringing this page to your team or even to your entire school to jump-start discussions about writing? Take some time to look through the appendices. There are several useful examples included. One we’d like to point out to you is Appendix L- The Genre Characteristics Excerpt on page A-13. Look to the Writing Essentials companion website at www.heinemann.com/writingessentials for the entire chart as well as directions to assist you playing the DVD.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ASSIGNMENT NINE: Final Course Reflection - Critically examine your current literacy program and develop realistic goals to improve your instruction. Also reflect on the balance between your home and school life. If our students are to become happy, literate people, they need happy, balanced teachers. BRIEFLY, share several of your goals with the class by posting them to the blog for this final assignment.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Thanks for taking our course!!!! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-74832207337505165942018-03-08T07:28:00.004-08:002018-03-08T07:28:52.911-08:00Assignment Eight: Written Reflection -Sections 4 & 5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sections Four and Five- Advocacy Is Also Essential and Teaching In Action: Lesson Essentials</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Assignment Eight: Read Writing Essentials Chapters 11-12 and Section Five. Reflect on the comments below and any additional reactions you have after reading these chapters. Post your thoughts to the course blog.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 11: Build on Best Practice and Research • What are some of the key research findings most relevant to writing instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are the practices of highly effective teachers?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can you be part of the ongoing professional development discussions in your building?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about test scores? What are the characteristics of high performing schools?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Think twice before adopting a “program”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie begins this chapter sharing her experiences doing residencies in schools and the surprising (and delightful) discovery that whole school cultures changed during the course of their work improving literacy instruction. As she said, “This is what education should be about…whole schools working together so that all students (can) succeed.” How is the climate/culture in your school? On your team? One reason we continue to look to Regie for inspiration is that we feel she is so practical. There is not one right way or method to teach writing. “That is why formulas, programs and recipes don’t work. Every context, school and person is different and has different needs. Literacy is not a set of acquired or learned skills.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 12: Make Every Minute Count• You need to “REDUCE THE PAPER LOAD!!!”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What can we do that will save us time and allow us to focus more on meaningful instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Regie states, “Take more time to see the light!” Don’t get bogged down with daily worksheets and isolated exercises.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Though this chapter is short it is full of valuable ideas and reminders! Regie reminds us in this chapter to stop and reflect about what we are doing in the classroom. Ask yourself: Is this the best use of my time? Is what I’m about to do going to help my students become more joyful and accomplished readers, writers and thinkers?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“It might be that the best use of your time is to read a professional book, see a movie, visit with a friend. Sharing your experiences with your students may be a more useful way to get them to think about their writing than marks and comments on a paper.” “It’s hard to come to school all excited about teaching if you’ve spent hours the night before pouring over papers.” It is a disservice to our students and ourselves “if our out-of-school time is all about paperwork.” In fact, “Teachers’ comments on students’ papers do little to improve writing, even if the comments are positive ones. It is far more effective to conference with students and focus on specific writing issues with the student at your side.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Also “(b)e sure that most of your writing time is devoted to writing, not preparing for writing or doing activities about writing. Safeguard sustained writing time; it’s critical for becoming a writer. Limit take-home work for students too, and place more emphasis on free-choice reading. Having more reading experiences positively impacts growth in writing skills.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie closes this chapter by reminding us to breathe, relax and enjoy writing- and your life! “One way to reduce stress and have more energy for teaching and advocacy is to have a life outside of school. I worry about teachers and principals who work twelve-hour days. I have seen no research that shows educators who work the longest hours get the best results or that longer reading and writing projects teach more about reading and writing. Keep evaluating whether what you’re staying late for-or the hours of work you take home-will help your students become more effective readers and writers."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-31401491963094532742018-02-22T09:39:00.000-08:002018-02-22T09:40:58.897-08:00Assignment Seven: Writing Conference<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT SEVEN: Student Writing Conference -</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Choose one or two children (classroom students, relatives, neighbors...) to conduct an informal conference with. You may choose to use one of Regie’s formats, your own or the one below, which I use in a conferring notebook. You need to find a system that will work for you. Example 1 (and below) is the format I use for each writing conference that I hold with students. Keep in mind that while you are conferring with students, the majority of other students should be writing!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><em>(Note: If you aren’t currently teaching please find a school-age child to do a conference with. We believe you will find it is worth the effort.) </em></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Student Name: Date:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">? (Question- Teacher asks)- “What are you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">working on today in your writing?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">C (Compliment)- Compliment the student on one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">strategy they are using well.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">TP (Teaching Point)- What is one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">strategy/point/goal you can teach this student to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">move them forward?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">FNT (For Next Time)- What needs to be a focus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">during the next conference/what were set goals?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ASSIGNMENT SEVEN: After completing your one or two conferences, please reflect on how well they went and how they will impact your whole group, small group and independent instruction in your classroom. Post your reflective response to the blog.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-40000498130579711812018-02-22T09:37:00.001-08:002018-02-22T09:37:29.816-08:00Assignment Six: DVD Reflection<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT SIX: DVD Reflection</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">- Included in your text is a DVD containing video clips of Regie’s conferences with writers in the classroom. There is a detailed commentary accompanying the DVD on page 336 of her text. Please watch the DVD and then look at her teaching notes beginning on page 336 (Regie suggests just watching without notes first so that you don’t miss what she and the students are doing.) After both watching and reading her notes, write your reflection and please post a copy of your DVD Reflection to the blog.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">*NOTE: If you experience problems playing the DVD please refer to the Writing Essentials companion website at www.heinemann.com/writingessentials for directions for playing the DVD. Look in the upper right hand corner for the link.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-85112909232659760252018-02-10T12:09:00.002-08:002018-02-10T12:09:09.544-08:00Assignment Five: Written Reflection- Section Three<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ASSIGNMENT FIVE: WRITTEN REFLECTION-Section Three- The Essential Writing Day Chapters 7-10</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 7: Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How might we integrate skill work into student writing rather than teaching it in isolation?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Daily Oral Language exercises – THEY DON’T WORK!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of focusing on meaning and quality first</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• All writing needs both a PURPOSE and an AUDIENCE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How thinking aloud can make your teaching more explicit</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Teaching WRITING – not just the language of writing (process, process, process)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about writing standards? In your District and State?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Key writing minilessons</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Revision – how to get students to care about it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Letting kids in on the secret that – Yes! – Conventions do matter!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we effectively use word walls?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In Chapter 7, suitably titled “Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills,” Regie gets to the heart of what so many teachers struggle with: “Fitting it all in!!!” Many of the elementary teachers that we work with are beginning to feel as though their personal motto is: “Jack of all trades; master of none.” We just don’t have the time to teach well what has to be taught. The only answer to this problem is to modify our instruction so it agrees with Regie’s stance that isolated skill work (such as Friday spelling tests, DOL, grammar worksheets…) will not help our students grow into writers (or readers.) On page 144, Regie shares four components for an integrated Writing Workshop:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1. Identify writing genres that would interest students (and meet district requirements)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2. Decide who the audience would be for each piece of writing.*</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">3. Model your own writing process and show students how you struggle.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">4. Have students share writing regularly (for both celebration and great teaching moments.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">*This created the biggest change in my own class’s writing - once my students began to write with an audience in mind, the quality of writing shot right up!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie also gets to the heart of what writing with “voice” really is and addresses how to teach children to write with an honest voice in their own writing. She describes voice as “the writer’s unique personality on paper, his own melody in words, her ‘mark’ as an individual. To write with voice, the writer has to be interested in the writing.” We think that many teachers and students are unclear as to how to add true voice to their writing. Regie suggests, “Voice is in the details – but details that show the real person and story behind the words, not just details for the sake of adding more words…”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Integrating those isolated editing skills such as grammar, punctuation, and spelling into our writing will increase the efficiency of our instruction. Bottom line – if the students care about their writing, are writing for a specific audience, and understand that “the importance of editing (and spelling conventionally) is to make their message clear and easy to read for their audience – or reader, they take this job seriously and work hard at making their writing clear.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 8: Organize for Daily Writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What is our definition of Writing Workshop? What does Regie say?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we have student choice within a structure?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of writing talk (teachers and students)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The ultimate nightmare for all of us…scheduling…finding the time to write everyday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of routines, organization and modeling expected behavior</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Genre study – why it’s important to have both school-wide and district-wide conversations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The possibilities within genres</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Figuring out a way to “fit it all in” is usually one of the most frustrating things many of us face. It starts at the beginning of the year as we first plan our daily schedule and continues throughout the remainder of the year. Considering how you will create your schedule to include a solid chunk of time for both reading and writing will probably be the most stressful piece to the start of your year.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Create a Comprehensive Literacy Framework: Play with your time and consider what changes you might make in your daily literacy framework for next year. Take a look at the samples that Regie provides on pages 185-187 for some possibilities. You do not have to post your schedule, but we believe this is a worthwhile activity to complete on your own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 9: Conference with Students</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What is the purpose of a Writing Conference?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are the different types of Writing Conferences?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can Share be used effectively?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How to conduct a productive conference</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about management and routines?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We are so glad that this chapter talks about Share during Writer’s Workshop. Too often this component is skipped by teachers who feel there isn’t enough time in the day to “fit it all in.” However, it’s a vital piece of the workshop and beneficial to all the students. Share sessions are an additional time to teach. The teachers in my school are quite comfortable using Share as their mini-lesson if the need arises. Given the reality of daily schedules they were finding that they couldn’t have a mini-lesson, confer and share everyday. They then realized that their Shares sometimes were the minilessons. For more information about Share we recommend looking at Leah Mermelstein’s Don’t Forget To Share: The Crucial Last Step in the Writing Workshop. In this slim book, Leah explains in detail four types of Share: Content Share, Craft Share, Process Share and Progress Share.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The “Tips for Successful Whole-Class Shares and Conferences” on page 215 are excellent ones to keep in mind. The bottom line for Conferences and Shares is that students should feel successful and want to continue to write. Make sure what you say to the child encourages them to keep on writing. “The conference is secondary; the student as writer and confident learner is primary.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 10: Make Assessment Count</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Understanding how rubrics work</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about Test Prep? THE BEST TEST PREP IS EXCELLENT TEACHING!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we collect reliable data on students’ writing throughout the day?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Guidelines for grading and providing evidence for parents, administrators and the public</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“There is lots of writing assessment going on these days, but little of it actually improves the quality of students’ writing.” As Regie continues she points out that this ‘assessment’ “is seldom used to improve daily instruction.” This chapter is about becoming more knowledgeable about assessments. Regie notes, that unless teachers know how to teach writing well, it can be a waste of time to examine students’ writing and place students on a writing continuum. She encourages you, as a staff to “write together, study together, converse together, gather school-wide data, analyze these data and set goals for improving writing instruction. There is no shortcut to helping students become effective writers and there is no program you can buy that will do it for you.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Remember to use rubrics judiciously and not overdo it. They should be “used as an evaluation tool, not as the driving instructional force.” “Use professional common sense. It is not advisable to apply rubrics to ALL writing nor to score ALL writing. Just as our students need lots of practice reading many texts without the expectation that they will be assessed on everything they read, they need lots of practice writing without being assessed on everything they write.” (Page 243)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have your students do a lot of writing! “Extensive writing across the curriculum as part of an excellent writing program is the best preparation for doing well on (standardized) tests. Readers have to read avidly to become readers and the same holds true for writers. Kids who write a lot develop higher-order thinking and understanding that translates to higher achievement on all types of tests.” Be sure to check out “Try It Apply It” on page 246 and throughout the chapter for ideas to incorporate into your program.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As Regie points out in this chapter, “The joy has gone out of writing.” We need to “concentrate on developing kids as learners rather than kids as test takers.”</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-36720604220806466852018-02-02T09:52:00.001-08:002018-02-02T09:52:47.709-08:00Assignment Four: Written Reflection- Section Two<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ASSIGNMENT FOUR: WRITTEN REFLECTION</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">-Section Two- Teaching Essentials Chapters 4-6</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read Writing Essentials, Chapters 4-6 and <u>BRIEFLY</u> reflect on the following thoughts written below and any additional comments that you have after reading these chapters. Post your reflection to the course blog.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 4: Raise Your Expectations</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Why we need to raise expectations – ESPECIALLY for our minority and lower socio-economic students</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How to raise expectations in your classrooms as well as in your grade level and throughout your entire building</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about handwriting, spelling and editing expectations?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How to use the Optimal Learning Model to support your students’ needs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“Raising expectations” for our students is a big push in all of our districts. Under “No Child Left Behind” many schools have been identified as “in need of improvement” and have been working furiously yet unsuccessfully for over ten years to “close the gap” for our minority children. But more important than improving performance on high stakes tests is remembering that if we raise our expectations and teach explicitly, then our students will rise to the occasion and astonish us with the high quality work that each of them is capable of.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie has some great insight into the need to raise expectations of our students and feeling comfortable and confident with the decision to set high standards for all learners. She raises the question, What are our clearly articulated, rigorous yet reasonable expectations? This is a question that we should reflect on as individual teachers, and one that should be the starting point for a conversation within our grade levels, buildings and across entire districts.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We’d like to know what you think of one of our favorite quotes from the book: “Worksheets aren’t good enough. The students who can do them don’t need them, and the ones who struggle with them feel defeated by the red marks, which only reinforce their feelings of inadequacy. WORKSHEETS FOSTER MEDIOCRITY!” (We personally wanted to shout out when we read that!) Please include your thoughts in your Section Two Reaction.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In this chapter, Regie also sheds some light on several topics that teachers often ask about. “What about handwriting expectations?” and “Conventions, Editing and Publishing?” It’s always helpful to get another professional’s point of view on these pressing issues! Enjoy the chapter!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 5: Do More Shared Writing</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Where does Shared Writing fit within the Optimal Learning Model?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• For which learners is Shared Writing appropriate?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we link Shared Writing with Shared Reading?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can Shared Writing be used to support word work?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are some “Tried and True” ideas for Shared Writing?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie's idea of Shared Writing is very different than that of many other professionals in the field. So often we use Shared Writing only with the primary grades. As Regie states, “What a great way to teach and engage all students in all aspects of oral and written language.” If we are to consider teaching through all phases of the Optimal Learning Model, we can begin to see how important Shared Writing is for our students. We think that the idea of using Shared Writing in both upper elementary and the middle schools is a new way of thinking for many of us.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">One of the reasons Regie encourages teachers to use chart paper and an easel, instead of projecting to a screen with an overhead or document camera, is that the children are seated right with you on the floor, which usually holds the children’s attention a little better. Another idea that has worked great for me is to move the overhead machine to the group area and place it on the floor in the middle of the group in front of the easel. I then project the machine onto the white space of the easel. It’s great because you’re able to be right there in the middle of the group and have the benefit of writing more quickly onto a transparency rather that chart paper. You’ll need to consider which of your Shared Writing activities you’ll want students to be rereading (don’t forget that you can hole punch transparencies and put them in a binder for future reference) and which you may want posted to your walls on charts.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie’s list of “Tried and True Ideas for Shared Writing” (page 112) is very extensive. It would be helpful to take a look at Regie’s list as you create your curriculum map for the year. Where would some of her suggestions fit within your science, social studies, math, reading and writing units across the year?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 6: Capitalize on the Reading-Writing Connection</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we become more effective integrating our reading and writing instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Are we as efficient as possible with our responses to reading?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The benefit and necessity to integrate our content area teaching with both reading and writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of writing (and reading) more nonfiction</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We know research shows that reading achievement affects writing achievement and vice-versa, and we also know that it continually gets harder to fit “it all” into our day. Effectively using reading and writing connections throughout the day in all areas of language arts, math, science, social studies, and even specials such as art, music and library, is our only option.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie’s suggestion of taking a closer look at how we use written response to reading is a very important one. Careful consideration is needed to decide if what we’re asking the students to do is “worth their time.” For example, if the response we’re looking for will “deepen comprehension, cause the writer to reflect on the content, and/or foster appreciation for the text” then it’s worth it. We whole-heartedly agree with her statement that many of the overly structured assignments such as book reports can alienate our readers! While response journals do have their benefits for us professionally Regie states, “they also take up a lot of our time!” It’s a very organized teacher who can effectively keep up with their responses without feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. Don’t forget the bottom line – “Be sure that students spend more time reading than writing about reading!” (Page 126)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We are so glad that Regie addressed how to effectively teach summary writing. We know that many teachers have a difficult time differentiating between a summary and retelling – I (Jackie) was one of them until several years ago. The snapshots and procedures that Regie shares on how to teach summarizing are invaluable and should be a reference that we all refer back to throughout our teaching year.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-59959485799128712932018-02-02T09:51:00.001-08:002018-02-02T09:51:40.340-08:00Assignment Three: Share Your Writing Life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 3: Share Your Writing Life</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Write together as a staff</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Note your writing practices</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Tell students why you write</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter Two of Regie’s book segues right into her third chapter, “Share Your Writing Life.” In this chapter Regie drives home the importance of teachers sharing their writing process with their students. She encourages teachers to become writers in front of their students, on their own and with their staff, and also to share their daily writing practices with their students. The purpose of the assignment below (Assignment #3) is to get you writing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong> </strong></span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.915px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT THREE: Sharing Your Writing Life!</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For many of us, writing is not enjoyable and/or is very difficult. Perhaps it is because we ourselves were never celebrated as writers. Or perhaps we only remember the “skills” based comments written in various colored pens on our papers…that always sliced deep (and turned many of us into “non-writers.”) These comments never really helped our writing become any better. As a requirement of a summer writing institute (which I was conned into attending “so that I could become a better teacher of writing”) I (Jackie) bit the bullet and wrote extensively throughout the course. What they say is true: the more I wrote, the more I enjoyed it, and I believe I grew as a writer. The goal of this two-part assignment is to get you writing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Part One:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For the first part of this assignment you need to think about topics for your own writing (ideas/stories that you can share to excite your students) and then actually write a short piece (ideally in front of your students.) If you do not presently have the opportunity to write in front of your students then please complete the activity on your own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1. Use the topic idea list from Regie’s “Try It and Apply It” on page 26. Choose several topics, and then create a list of sub-topics for each.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2. Choose the sub-topic that most interests you and write a short piece that you can use to model writing in front of your students.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Part Two:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1. On pages 45-46, Regie gives suggestions for writing exercises for the start of school (or really anytime you need to get writing started.) Follow her criteria for “Capturing A Moment” (from the summer or any other time ) and draft a short piece. Follow the directions in the chart on page 46.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2. After completing the draft, which should take no more than 10 minutes, take a moment to write down some of your observations of your writing process. Again, use the suggestions from the chart or the bullets below:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">o What are you thinking about as you are composing?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">o What exactly did you do to plan, to get started writing, when you got stuck, or when you completed your piece?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">o What does your process look like? Do you write straight through? Stop to re-read? Revise as you go? Look up information? Edit?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The goal of this activity is to get you to write - which will hopefully get you more comfortable writing in front of your children! Complete this activity and let us know how it went by sharing your answers to some of the bulleted questions above.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Please post your comments to the course blog. (We don’t need to see your writing piece. We are more interested in your thought process as you completed the exercise.)</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-90501660430557678422018-01-20T13:36:00.001-08:002018-01-20T13:36:06.673-08:00Assignment Two: Written Reflection<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT TWO: WRITTEN REFLECTION–Section One- The Essential Writing Life Chapters 1-3</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>BRIEFLY</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">reflect on the following comments written below from Chapters 1-3 and any additional thoughts that you have after reading these chapters.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 1: Simplify the Teaching of Writing• Simplify our teaching</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Becoming more knowledgeable about teaching writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Examine your beliefs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie gets to the heart of her book Writing Essentials with this quote on the final page of Chapter One: “By reducing the clutter in our teaching lives-the over-planning, the unnecessary activities, the paper load, all the ‘stuff’ that takes our time and energy and does little to improve teaching and learning-we bring joy back into our work and the world of our students.” Many of us work very hard and spend many hours complicating our teaching lives. In this book Regie will help you simplify your teaching life for your benefit and that of your students.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">One of the frustrations that teachers encounter regularly is the ever changing “latest and best” writing programs that districts or states force on them and their students. With this revolving cycle of programs, teachers are spending too much time learning how to use the program rather than becoming better writing teachers. Regie explains that in the districts where students are the best writers, they are writing for real purposes and audiences and publishing their writing; teachers are not using prescribed writing programs.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Look at Appendix A (page A-2.) Examine your beliefs about writing by reading the statements about the writing process and marking true or false in your book. (Go ahead and write in your book, it’s OK! You can even use a pencil and mark very lightly if you want to.) We found this activity very enlightening. Let us know what you think after you complete the activity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In your reflection for Section One, please include your thoughts about the following questions or statements:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Regie demonstrates how to use the Optimal Learning Model (shown on the front cover and page 11) throughout the book. Consider how the Optimal Learning Model fits into your own instruction.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• As you think about how to teach writing so that all students can become successful, effective and joyful writers, reflect on how you presently teach the “12 Writing Essentials” (as described on pages 13-14 in the text) during your daily writing instruction. As we continue to read through Regie’s book, hopefully you will begin to see how you might make changes in your instruction to better incorporate these “12 Writing Essentials.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 2: Start With Celebration</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Make sure writing is meaningful not just correct</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Use stories as springboards and ensure that ALL students hear stories</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Write in front of your students and connect home and school</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The title of Chapter Two simply states, “Start with Celebration,” and that’s exactly what we need to do for our students. The celebration of all students’ writing needs to be put into the forefront and be made our first teaching goal. Celebrations should happen school-wide, within our classrooms and with students individually. As children begin to see themselves as successful writers, they will take more risks in their writing and in turn will become better writers who enjoy the writing process.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Another key point that Regie highlights in this chapter is to “make sure writing is meaningful, not just correct!” Students need to understand that writing is “enjoyable and for a real purpose and audience.” She also reminds us “that teaching skills in isolation does not make student writers; neither does teaching to the test. And breaking writing into bits and pieces robs children of the joy of writing.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie suggests using stories as a springboard for teaching and learning. Hearing and telling stories builds our students’ oral language skills and these stories are “an entryway into reading and writing.” Only when students are reading and writing real stories can they connect the “skills” based learning to their reading and writing!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong><br />Please include your thoughts about the following questions or statements in your written reflection of Section One:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Regie explains how important celebrating student writing is. How do you celebrate student writing in your classroom? How might you add more celebration of student writing to your day/year?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Consider what changes you could make in your writing instruction to make writing more meaningful and purposeful for your students.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-86710808369501585572018-01-20T13:35:00.002-08:002018-01-20T13:35:27.095-08:00Assignment One: Introduction<span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Welcome to Essentials of Writing! We look forward to working and learning with you. In order for everyone to get the most out of the course, please be sure to read <b><u>and respond</u> </b>to each others comments.</span><u style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Please try to keep your responses within one allotted "comment" space to ensure that the blog remains manageable for all participants.</b></u><br />
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<span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Also, you may want to type your comments in a Word Document and either copy from Word and paste onto the blog or save it in a folder on your computer and then post it to the blog. I have written a couple of lengthy comments that I lost before I was able to post it to the blog. This extra step may save you some frustration later on this term.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Last of all, we will write our comments to your posts on the blog, so you will need to check back to the corresponding week for feedback (and to make additional comments if you wish.)</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Introduction Post-</b><span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Tell us about yourself. Where do you teach? What grade do you teach? How long have you been teaching? How many students are there in your class? Do you have instructional support? What does your current literacy program look like? (If you aren’t currently teaching let us know.) What is your knowledge/training in the area of literacy (be specific about your experiences teaching writing?) Does your district provide training in literacy –especially writing? If so, what exactly have they offered? Has your district been bogged down with getting students to perform well on state writing assessments – prompts? How do you feel about teaching? Are you happy at work? Also, let us know a little about you outside of the classroom: Interests/ Hobbies/Family Life? What do you hope to get out of this course?</span><i style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Post your reflection to the blog.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-39611686324267202018-01-20T13:29:00.004-08:002018-01-20T13:29:51.627-08:00Welcome Winter 2018 Students!<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6791467692250002220" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #446666; border-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) rgb(187, 187, 187) rgb(68, 102, 102); border-image: initial; border-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 1px; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 10px 14px 1px 29px;">
Hello and Welcome to our Course.</div>
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<br />One of the benefits of the blog format for online courses is the discourse between students. We post only one or two assignments at a time in order to foster communication between the course participants.<br /><br />If you do work ahead you will need to post your reflection on the blog when the corresponding assignment is posted.<br /><br />If you have a question please email us and put "Question" or "REPLY NEEDED" in the subject line so we can get back to you in a timely fashion. We frequently scan our inbox for questions but wait to reply to assignments for when we have a good chunk of time. If there is no notation in the subject line of the email, we assume it is just an assignment.<br /><br />A couple of notes:<br /><br />We suggest you save your work in a word processing document before posting to the blog. There have been times where something happens and a post may disappear. (Having this saved makes it easier to repost.)<br /><br />Some students have experienced problems posting using Firefox. There are work-arounds, but the easiest is just to use a different browser.<br /><br />In order to make the blog easier to read, and more likely that other students will read and respond to your posts, we ask that you keep your assignment to the one allotted post.</div>
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You are free to work ahead on the assignments and save them on your computer until we post on the blog.<br /><br />All work due 3/19</div>
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Grades available online 3/28<br /><br /><br />Here is the address to TINT's FAQ page which may have some useful information for you:</div>
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<b><span style="color: orange;">http://www.tint-edu.com/crbst_5.html</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-53764366392855253682017-08-06T07:38:00.004-07:002017-08-06T07:39:43.929-07:00Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Reminder: All course work due by 8/25</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Take a look at the last section in Regie's text, Writing Essentials, it's chock full of great resources!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Teaching in Action: Lesson Essentials 5 Day Lesson Plans & Appendices</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Secrets of Second Graders• Heart Poems• Procedural writing• Hero writing• Persuasive writing• Appendix survey</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Be
sure to look through this section. If you haven’t already done so, look
at Appendix A (page A-2.) Re-examine your beliefs about writing by
re-reading the statements about the writing process and marking true or
false in your book. Did you change any of your previous answers? Would
you consider bringing this page to your team or even to your entire
school to jump-start discussions about writing? Take some time to look
through the appendices. There are several useful examples included. One
we’d like to point out to you is Appendix L- The Genre Characteristics
Excerpt on page A-13. Look to the Writing Essentials companion website
at www.heinemann.com/writingessentials for the entire chart as well as
directions to assist you playing the DVD.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ASSIGNMENT
NINE: Final Course Reflection - Critically examine your current
literacy program and develop realistic goals to improve your
instruction. Also reflect on the balance between your home and school
life. If our students are to become happy, literate people, they need
happy, balanced teachers. BRIEFLY, share several of your goals with the
class by posting them to the blog for this final assignment.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Thanks for taking our course!!!! Mary & Jackie!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-52184498963287985322017-07-30T20:15:00.002-07:002017-07-30T20:15:59.245-07:00Assignment Eight: Written Reflection- Sections 4 & 5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sections Four and Five- Advocacy Is Also Essential and Teaching In Action: Lesson Essentials</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Assignment
Eight: Read Writing Essentials Chapters 11-12 and Section Five. Reflect
on the comments below and any additional reactions you have after
reading these chapters. Post your thoughts to the course blog.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter
11: Build on Best Practice and Research • What are some of the key
research findings most relevant to writing instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are the practices of highly effective teachers?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can you be part of the ongoing professional development discussions in your building?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about test scores? What are the characteristics of high performing schools?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Think twice before adopting a “program”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
begins this chapter sharing her experiences doing residencies in
schools and the surprising (and delightful) discovery that whole school
cultures changed during the course of their work improving literacy
instruction. As she said, “This is what education should be about…whole
schools working together so that all students (can) succeed.” How is the
climate/culture in your school? On your team? One reason we continue to
look to Regie for inspiration is that we feel she is so practical.
There is not one right way or method to teach writing. “That is why
formulas, programs and recipes don’t work. Every context, school and
person is different and has different needs. Literacy is not a set of
acquired or learned skills.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 12: Make Every Minute Count• You need to “REDUCE THE PAPER LOAD!!!”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What can we do that will save us time and allow us to focus more on meaningful instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Regie states, “Take more time to see the light!” Don’t get bogged down with daily worksheets and isolated exercises.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Though
this chapter is short it is full of valuable ideas and reminders! Regie
reminds us in this chapter to stop and reflect about what we are doing
in the classroom. Ask yourself: Is this the best use of my time? Is what
I’m about to do going to help my students become more joyful and
accomplished readers, writers and thinkers?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“It
might be that the best use of your time is to read a professional book,
see a movie, visit with a friend. Sharing your experiences with your
students may be a more useful way to get them to think about their
writing than marks and comments on a paper.” “It’s hard to come to
school all excited about teaching if you’ve spent hours the night before
pouring over papers.” It is a disservice to our students and ourselves
“if our out-of-school time is all about paperwork.” In fact, “Teachers’
comments on students’ papers do little to improve writing, even if the
comments are positive ones. It is far more effective to conference with
students and focus on specific writing issues with the student at your
side.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Also
“(b)e sure that most of your writing time is devoted to writing, not
preparing for writing or doing activities about writing. Safeguard
sustained writing time; it’s critical for becoming a writer. Limit
take-home work for students too, and place more emphasis on free-choice
reading. Having more reading experiences positively impacts growth in
writing skills.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
closes this chapter by reminding us to breathe, relax and enjoy
writing- and your life! “One way to reduce stress and have more energy
for teaching and advocacy is to have a life outside of school. I worry
about teachers and principals who work twelve-hour days. I have seen no
research that shows educators who work the longest hours get the best
results or that longer reading and writing projects teach more about
reading and writing. Keep evaluating whether what you’re staying late
for-or the hours of work you take home-will help your students become
more effective readers and writers."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-69964390966372303652017-07-22T08:48:00.001-07:002017-07-22T08:48:12.801-07:00Assignment Seven: Writing Conference<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT SEVEN: Student Writing Conference -</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Choose
one or two children (classroom students, relatives, neighbors...) to
conduct an informal conference with. You may choose to use one of
Regie’s formats, your own or the one below, which I use in a conferring
notebook. You need to find a system that will work for you. Example 1
(and below) is the format I use for each writing conference that I hold
with students. Keep in mind that while you are conferring with students,
the majority of other students should be writing!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><em>(Note:
If you aren’t currently teaching please find a school-age child to do a
conference with. We believe you will find it is worth the effort.) </em></span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><em><br /></em></span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Student Name: Date:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">? (Question- Teacher asks)- “What are you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">working on today in your writing?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">C (Compliment)- Compliment the student on one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">strategy they are using well.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">TP (Teaching Point)- What is one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">strategy/point/goal you can teach this student to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">move them forward?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">FNT (For Next Time)- What needs to be a focus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">during the next conference/what were set goals?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ASSIGNMENT
SEVEN: After completing your one or two conferences, please reflect on
how well they went and how they will impact your whole group, small
group and independent instruction in your classroom. Post your
reflective response to the blog.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-7354656207893080302017-07-22T08:47:00.001-07:002017-07-22T08:47:04.332-07:00Assignment Six: DVD Reflection<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT SIX: DVD Reflection</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">-
Included in your text is a DVD containing video clips of Regie’s
conferences with writers in the classroom. There is a detailed
commentary accompanying the DVD on page 336 of her text. Please watch
the DVD and then look at her teaching notes beginning on page 336 (Regie
suggests just watching without notes first so that you don’t miss what
she and the students are doing.) After both watching and reading her
notes, write your reflection and please post a copy of your DVD
Reflection to the blog.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">*NOTE:
If you experience problems playing the DVD please refer to the Writing
Essentials companion website at www.heinemann.com/writingessentials for
directions for playing the DVD. Look in the upper right hand corner for
the link.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-5631942514353217812017-07-11T07:18:00.001-07:002017-07-11T07:18:48.492-07:00Assignment Five: Written Reflection- Section Three<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ASSIGNMENT FIVE: WRITTEN REFLECTION-Section Three- The Essential Writing Day Chapters 7-10</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 7: Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How might we integrate skill work into student writing rather than teaching it in isolation?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Daily Oral Language exercises – THEY DON’T WORK!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of focusing on meaning and quality first</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• All writing needs both a PURPOSE and an AUDIENCE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How thinking aloud can make your teaching more explicit</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Teaching WRITING – not just the language of writing (process, process, process)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about writing standards? In your District and State?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Key writing minilessons</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Revision – how to get students to care about it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Letting kids in on the secret that – Yes! – Conventions do matter!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we effectively use word walls?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In
Chapter 7, suitably titled “Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills,”
Regie gets to the heart of what so many teachers struggle with: “Fitting
it all in!!!” Many of the elementary teachers that we work with are
beginning to feel as though their personal motto is: “Jack of all
trades; master of none.” We just don’t have the time to teach well what
has to be taught. The only answer to this problem is to modify our
instruction so it agrees with Regie’s stance that isolated skill work
(such as Friday spelling tests, DOL, grammar worksheets…) will not help
our students grow into writers (or readers.) On page 144, Regie shares
four components for an integrated Writing Workshop:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1. Identify writing genres that would interest students (and meet district requirements)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2. Decide who the audience would be for each piece of writing.*</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">3. Model your own writing process and show students how you struggle.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">4. Have students share writing regularly (for both celebration and great teaching moments.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">*This
created the biggest change in my own class’s writing - once my students
began to write with an audience in mind, the quality of writing shot
right up!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
also gets to the heart of what writing with “voice” really is and
addresses how to teach children to write with an honest voice in their
own writing. She describes voice as “the writer’s unique personality on
paper, his own melody in words, her ‘mark’ as an individual. To write
with voice, the writer has to be interested in the writing.” We think
that many teachers and students are unclear as to how to add true voice
to their writing. Regie suggests, “Voice is in the details – but details
that show the real person and story behind the words, not just details
for the sake of adding more words…”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Integrating
those isolated editing skills such as grammar, punctuation, and
spelling into our writing will increase the efficiency of our
instruction. Bottom line – if the students care about their writing, are
writing for a specific audience, and understand that “the importance of
editing (and spelling conventionally) is to make their message clear
and easy to read for their audience – or reader, they take this job
seriously and work hard at making their writing clear.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 8: Organize for Daily Writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What is our definition of Writing Workshop? What does Regie say?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we have student choice within a structure?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of writing talk (teachers and students)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The ultimate nightmare for all of us…scheduling…finding the time to write everyday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of routines, organization and modeling expected behavior</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Genre study – why it’s important to have both school-wide and district-wide conversations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The possibilities within genres</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Figuring
out a way to “fit it all in” is usually one of the most frustrating
things many of us face. It starts at the beginning of the year as we
first plan our daily schedule and continues throughout the remainder of
the year. Considering how you will create your schedule to include a
solid chunk of time for both reading and writing will probably be the
most stressful piece to the start of your year.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Create
a Comprehensive Literacy Framework: Play with your time and consider
what changes you might make in your daily literacy framework for next
year. Take a look at the samples that Regie provides on pages 185-187
for some possibilities. You do not have to post your schedule, but we
believe this is a worthwhile activity to complete on your own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 9: Conference with Students</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What is the purpose of a Writing Conference?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are the different types of Writing Conferences?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can Share be used effectively?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How to conduct a productive conference</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about management and routines?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We
are so glad that this chapter talks about Share during Writer’s
Workshop. Too often this component is skipped by teachers who feel there
isn’t enough time in the day to “fit it all in.” However, it’s a vital
piece of the workshop and beneficial to all the students. Share sessions
are an additional time to teach. The teachers in my school are quite
comfortable using Share as their mini-lesson if the need arises. Given
the reality of daily schedules they were finding that they couldn’t have
a mini-lesson, confer and share everyday. They then realized that their
Shares sometimes were the minilessons. For more information about Share
we recommend looking at Leah Mermelstein’s Don’t Forget To Share: The
Crucial Last Step in the Writing Workshop. In this slim book, Leah
explains in detail four types of Share: Content Share, Craft Share,
Process Share and Progress Share.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The
“Tips for Successful Whole-Class Shares and Conferences” on page 215
are excellent ones to keep in mind. The bottom line for Conferences and
Shares is that students should feel successful and want to continue to
write. Make sure what you say to the child encourages them to keep on
writing. “The conference is secondary; the student as writer and
confident learner is primary.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 10: Make Assessment Count</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Understanding how rubrics work</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about Test Prep? THE BEST TEST PREP IS EXCELLENT TEACHING!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we collect reliable data on students’ writing throughout the day?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Guidelines for grading and providing evidence for parents, administrators and the public</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“There
is lots of writing assessment going on these days, but little of it
actually improves the quality of students’ writing.” As Regie continues
she points out that this ‘assessment’ “is seldom used to improve daily
instruction.” This chapter is about becoming more knowledgeable about
assessments. Regie notes, that unless teachers know how to teach writing
well, it can be a waste of time to examine students’ writing and place
students on a writing continuum. She encourages you, as a staff to
“write together, study together, converse together, gather school-wide
data, analyze these data and set goals for improving writing
instruction. There is no shortcut to helping students become effective
writers and there is no program you can buy that will do it for you.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Remember
to use rubrics judiciously and not overdo it. They should be “used as
an evaluation tool, not as the driving instructional force.” “Use
professional common sense. It is not advisable to apply rubrics to ALL
writing nor to score ALL writing. Just as our students need lots of
practice reading many texts without the expectation that they will be
assessed on everything they read, they need lots of practice writing
without being assessed on everything they write.” (Page 243)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have
your students do a lot of writing! “Extensive writing across the
curriculum as part of an excellent writing program is the best
preparation for doing well on (standardized) tests. Readers have to read
avidly to become readers and the same holds true for writers. Kids who
write a lot develop higher-order thinking and understanding that
translates to higher achievement on all types of tests.” Be sure to
check out “Try It Apply It” on page 246 and throughout the chapter for
ideas to incorporate into your program.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As
Regie points out in this chapter, “The joy has gone out of writing.” We
need to “concentrate on developing kids as learners rather than kids as
test takers.”</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-15138748463791854962017-07-06T05:56:00.001-07:002017-07-06T05:56:29.071-07:00Assignment Four: Written Reflection - Section Two<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ASSIGNMENT FOUR: WRITTEN REFLECTION</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">-Section Two- Teaching Essentials Chapters 4-6</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read Writing Essentials, Chapters 4-6 and <u>BRIEFLY</u> reflect
on the following thoughts written below and any additional comments
that you have after reading these chapters. Post your reflection to the
course blog.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 4: Raise Your Expectations</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Why we need to raise expectations – ESPECIALLY for our minority and lower socio-economic students</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How to raise expectations in your classrooms as well as in your grade level and throughout your entire building</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about handwriting, spelling and editing expectations?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How to use the Optimal Learning Model to support your students’ needs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“Raising
expectations” for our students is a big push in all of our districts.
Under “No Child Left Behind” many schools have been identified as “in
need of improvement” and have been working furiously yet unsuccessfully
for over ten years to “close the gap” for our minority children. But
more important than improving performance on high stakes tests is
remembering that if we raise our expectations and teach explicitly, then
our students will rise to the occasion and astonish us with the high
quality work that each of them is capable of.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
has some great insight into the need to raise expectations of our
students and feeling comfortable and confident with the decision to set
high standards for all learners. She raises the question, What are our
clearly articulated, rigorous yet reasonable expectations? This is a
question that we should reflect on as individual teachers, and one that
should be the starting point for a conversation within our grade levels,
buildings and across entire districts.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We’d
like to know what you think of one of our favorite quotes from the
book: “Worksheets aren’t good enough. The students who can do them don’t
need them, and the ones who struggle with them feel defeated by the red
marks, which only reinforce their feelings of inadequacy. WORKSHEETS
FOSTER MEDIOCRITY!” (We personally wanted to shout out when we read
that!) Please include your thoughts in your Section Two Reaction.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In
this chapter, Regie also sheds some light on several topics that
teachers often ask about. “What about handwriting expectations?” and
“Conventions, Editing and Publishing?” It’s always helpful to get
another professional’s point of view on these pressing issues! Enjoy the
chapter!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 5: Do More Shared Writing</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Where does Shared Writing fit within the Optimal Learning Model?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• For which learners is Shared Writing appropriate?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we link Shared Writing with Shared Reading?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can Shared Writing be used to support word work?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are some “Tried and True” ideas for Shared Writing?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie's
idea of Shared Writing is very different than that of many other
professionals in the field. So often we use Shared Writing only with the
primary grades. As Regie states, “What a great way to teach and engage
all students in all aspects of oral and written language.” If we are to
consider teaching through all phases of the Optimal Learning Model, we
can begin to see how important Shared Writing is for our students. We
think that the idea of using Shared Writing in both upper elementary and
the middle schools is a new way of thinking for many of us.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">One
of the reasons Regie encourages teachers to use chart paper and an
easel, instead of projecting to a screen with an overhead or document
camera, is that the children are seated right with you on the floor,
which usually holds the children’s attention a little better. Another
idea that has worked great for me is to move the overhead machine to the
group area and place it on the floor in the middle of the group in
front of the easel. I then project the machine onto the white space of
the easel. It’s great because you’re able to be right there in the
middle of the group and have the benefit of writing more quickly onto a
transparency rather that chart paper. You’ll need to consider which of
your Shared Writing activities you’ll want students to be rereading
(don’t forget that you can hole punch transparencies and put them in a
binder for future reference) and which you may want posted to your walls
on charts.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie’s
list of “Tried and True Ideas for Shared Writing” (page 112) is very
extensive. It would be helpful to take a look at Regie’s list as you
create your curriculum map for the year. Where would some of her
suggestions fit within your science, social studies, math, reading and
writing units across the year?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 6: Capitalize on the Reading-Writing Connection</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we become more effective integrating our reading and writing instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Are we as efficient as possible with our responses to reading?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The benefit and necessity to integrate our content area teaching with both reading and writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of writing (and reading) more nonfiction</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We
know research shows that reading achievement affects writing
achievement and vice-versa, and we also know that it continually gets
harder to fit “it all” into our day. Effectively using reading and
writing connections throughout the day in all areas of language arts,
math, science, social studies, and even specials such as art, music and
library, is our only option.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie’s
suggestion of taking a closer look at how we use written response to
reading is a very important one. Careful consideration is needed to
decide if what we’re asking the students to do is “worth their time.”
For example, if the response we’re looking for will “deepen
comprehension, cause the writer to reflect on the content, and/or foster
appreciation for the text” then it’s worth it. We whole-heartedly agree
with her statement that many of the overly structured assignments such
as book reports can alienate our readers! While response journals do
have their benefits for us professionally Regie states, “they also take
up a lot of our time!” It’s a very organized teacher who can effectively
keep up with their responses without feeling overwhelmed and
frustrated. Don’t forget the bottom line – “Be sure that students spend
more time reading than writing about reading!” (Page 126)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We
are so glad that Regie addressed how to effectively teach summary
writing. We know that many teachers have a difficult time
differentiating between a summary and retelling – I (Jackie) was one of
them until several years ago. The snapshots and procedures that Regie
shares on how to teach summarizing are invaluable and should be a
reference that we all refer back to throughout our teaching year.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-3125167495132311302017-07-06T05:55:00.001-07:002017-07-06T05:55:27.872-07:00Assignment Three: Share Your Writing Life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 3: Share Your Writing Life</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Write together as a staff</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Note your writing practices</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Tell students why you write</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter
Two of Regie’s book segues right into her third chapter, “Share Your
Writing Life.” In this chapter Regie drives home the importance of
teachers sharing their writing process with their students. She
encourages teachers to become writers in front of their students, on
their own and with their staff, and also to share their daily writing
practices with their students. The purpose of the assignment below
(Assignment #3) is to get you writing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong> </strong></span><br style="color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT THREE: Sharing Your Writing Life!</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For
many of us, writing is not enjoyable and/or is very difficult. Perhaps
it is because we ourselves were never celebrated as writers. Or perhaps
we only remember the “skills” based comments written in various colored
pens on our papers…that always sliced deep (and turned many of us into
“non-writers.”) These comments never really helped our writing become
any better. As a requirement of a summer writing institute (which I was
conned into attending “so that I could become a better teacher of
writing”) I (Jackie) bit the bullet and wrote extensively throughout the
course. What they say is true: the more I wrote, the more I enjoyed it,
and I believe I grew as a writer. The goal of this two-part assignment
is to get you writing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Part One:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For
the first part of this assignment you need to think about topics for
your own writing (ideas/stories that you can share to excite your
students) and then actually write a short piece (ideally in front of
your students.) If you do not presently have the opportunity to write in
front of your students then please complete the activity on your own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1.
Use the topic idea list from Regie’s “Try It and Apply It” on page 26.
Choose several topics, and then create a list of sub-topics for each.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2.
Choose the sub-topic that most interests you and write a short piece
that you can use to model writing in front of your students.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Part Two:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1.
On pages 45-46, Regie gives suggestions for writing exercises for the
start of school (or really anytime you need to get writing started.)
Follow her criteria for “Capturing A Moment” (from the summer or any
other time ) and draft a short piece. Follow the directions in the
chart on page 46.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2.
After completing the draft, which should take no more than 10 minutes,
take a moment to write down some of your observations of your writing
process. Again, use the suggestions from the chart or the bullets below:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">o What are you thinking about as you are composing?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">o What exactly did you do to plan, to get started writing, when you got stuck, or when you completed your piece?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">o What does your process look like? Do you write straight through? Stop to re-read? Revise as you go? Look up information? Edit?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The
goal of this activity is to get you to write - which will hopefully get
you more comfortable writing in front of your children! Complete this
activity and let us know how it went by sharing your answers to some of
the bulleted questions above.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Please
post your comments to the course blog. (We don’t need to see your
writing piece. We are more interested in your thought process as you
completed the exercise.)</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-16704258940052216022017-06-26T04:55:00.000-07:002017-06-26T04:55:10.518-07:00Assignment Two: Written Reflection- Section One<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT TWO: WRITTEN REFLECTION–Section One- The Essential Writing Life Chapters 1-3</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>BRIEFLY</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">reflect
on the following comments written below from Chapters 1-3 and any
additional thoughts that you have after reading these chapters.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 1: Simplify the Teaching of Writing• Simplify our teaching</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Becoming more knowledgeable about teaching writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Examine your beliefs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
gets to the heart of her book Writing Essentials with this quote on the
final page of Chapter One: “By reducing the clutter in our teaching
lives-the over-planning, the unnecessary activities, the paper load, all
the ‘stuff’ that takes our time and energy and does little to improve
teaching and learning-we bring joy back into our work and the world of
our students.” Many of us work very hard and spend many hours
complicating our teaching lives. In this book Regie will help you
simplify your teaching life for your benefit and that of your students.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">One
of the frustrations that teachers encounter regularly is the ever
changing “latest and best” writing programs that districts or states
force on them and their students. With this revolving cycle of programs,
teachers are spending too much time learning how to use the program
rather than becoming better writing teachers. Regie explains that in the
districts where students are the best writers, they are writing for
real purposes and audiences and publishing their writing; teachers are
not using prescribed writing programs.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Look
at Appendix A (page A-2.) Examine your beliefs about writing by reading
the statements about the writing process and marking true or false in
your book. (Go ahead and write in your book, it’s OK! You can even use a
pencil and mark very lightly if you want to.) We found this activity
very enlightening. Let us know what you think after you complete the
activity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In your reflection for Section One, please include your thoughts about the following questions or statements:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">•
Regie demonstrates how to use the Optimal Learning Model (shown on the
front cover and page 11) throughout the book. Consider how the Optimal
Learning Model fits into your own instruction.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">•
As you think about how to teach writing so that all students can become
successful, effective and joyful writers, reflect on how you presently
teach the “12 Writing Essentials” (as described on pages 13-14 in the
text) during your daily writing instruction. As we continue to read
through Regie’s book, hopefully you will begin to see how you might make
changes in your instruction to better incorporate these “12 Writing
Essentials.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 2: Start With Celebration</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Make sure writing is meaningful not just correct</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Use stories as springboards and ensure that ALL students hear stories</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Write in front of your students and connect home and school</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The
title of Chapter Two simply states, “Start with Celebration,” and
that’s exactly what we need to do for our students. The celebration of
all students’ writing needs to be put into the forefront and be made our
first teaching goal. Celebrations should happen school-wide, within our
classrooms and with students individually. As children begin to see
themselves as successful writers, they will take more risks in their
writing and in turn will become better writers who enjoy the writing
process.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Another
key point that Regie highlights in this chapter is to “make sure
writing is meaningful, not just correct!” Students need to understand
that writing is “enjoyable and for a real purpose and audience.” She
also reminds us “that teaching skills in isolation does not make student
writers; neither does teaching to the test. And breaking writing into
bits and pieces robs children of the joy of writing.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
suggests using stories as a springboard for teaching and learning.
Hearing and telling stories builds our students’ oral language skills
and these stories are “an entryway into reading and writing.” Only when
students are reading and writing real stories can they connect the
“skills” based learning to their reading and writing!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong><br />Please include your thoughts about the following questions or statements in your written reflection of Section One:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">•
Regie explains how important celebrating student writing is. How do you
celebrate student writing in your classroom? How might you add more
celebration of student writing to your day/year?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">•
Consider what changes you could make in your writing instruction to
make writing more meaningful and purposeful for your students.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-24714218937533892352017-06-26T04:53:00.001-07:002017-06-26T04:53:57.695-07:00Assignment One: Introduction<span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Welcome
to Essentials of Writing! We look forward to working and learning with
you. In order for everyone to get the most out of the course, please be
sure to read <b><u>and respond</u> </b>to each others comments.</span><u style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Please
try to keep your responses within one allotted "comment" space to
ensure that the blog remains manageable for all participants.</b></u><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.915px;" /><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Also,
you may want to type your comments in a Word Document and either copy
from Word and paste onto the blog or save it in a folder on your
computer and then post it to the blog. I have written a couple of
lengthy comments that I lost before I was able to post it to the blog.
This extra step may save you some frustration later on this term.</span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.915px;" /><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Last
of all, we will write our comments to your posts on the blog, so you
will need to check back to the corresponding week for feedback (and to
make additional comments if you wish.)</span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.915px;" /><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Let
us know if you have any questions. You can email us, but please put the
words "Question for Essentials of Writing" in the subject line so that
we can respond in a timely fashion.</span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.915px;" /><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><b style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ASSIGNMENT ONE: Post your Introduction to the course Blog.</b><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.915px;" /><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><b style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Introduction Post-</b><span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Tell
us about yourself. Where do you teach? What grade do you teach? How
long have you been teaching? How many students are there in your class?
Do you have instructional support? What does your current literacy
program look like? (If you aren’t currently teaching let us know.) What
is your knowledge/training in the area of literacy (be specific about
your experiences teaching writing?) Does your district provide training
in literacy –especially writing? If so, what exactly have they offered?
Has your district been bogged down with getting students to perform well
on state writing assessments – prompts? How do you feel about teaching?
Are you happy at work? Also, let us know a little about you outside of
the classroom: Interests/ Hobbies/Family Life? What do you hope to get
out of this course?</span><i style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Post your reflection to the blog.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-3601560087658284152017-06-26T04:52:00.002-07:002017-06-26T04:52:44.250-07:00WELCOME Summer 2017 Students!<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6791467692250002220" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #446666; border-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) rgb(187, 187, 187) rgb(68, 102, 102); border-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 1px; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 10px 14px 1px 29px;">
Hello and Welcome to our Course.</div>
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<br />One of the benefits of the blog format for online courses is the
discourse between students. We post only one or two assignments at a
time in order to foster communication between the course participants.<br /><br />If you do work ahead you will need to post your reflection on the blog when the corresponding assignment is posted.<br /><br />If
you have a question please email us and put "Question" or "REPLY
NEEDED" in the subject line so we can get back to you in a timely
fashion. We frequently scan our inbox for questions but wait to reply to
assignments for when we have a good chunk of time. If there is no
notation in the subject line of the email, we assume it is just an
assignment.<br /><br />A couple of notes:<br /><br />We suggest you save your
work in a word processing document before posting to the blog. There
have been times where something happens and a post may disappear.
(Having this saved makes it easier to repost.)<br /><br />Some students have
experienced problems posting using Firefox. There are work-arounds, but
the easiest is just to use a different browser.<br /><br />In order to make
the blog easier to read, and more likely that other students will read
and respond to your posts, we ask that you keep your assignment to the
one allotted post.</div>
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You are free to work ahead on the assignments and save them on your computer until we post on the blog.<br /><br />All work due 8/25</div>
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Grades available online 9/6<br /><br /><br />Here is the address to TINT's FAQ page which may have some useful information for you:</div>
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<b><span style="color: orange;">http://www.tint-edu.com/crbst_5.html</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-85979260182554468422017-05-28T12:27:00.002-07:002017-05-28T12:27:40.552-07:00Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Take a look at the last section in Regie's text, Writing Essentials, it's chock full of great resources!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Teaching in Action: Lesson Essentials 5 Day Lesson Plans & Appendices</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Secrets of Second Graders• Heart Poems• Procedural writing• Hero writing• Persuasive writing• Appendix survey</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Be
sure to look through this section. If you haven’t already done so, look
at Appendix A (page A-2.) Re-examine your beliefs about writing by
re-reading the statements about the writing process and marking true or
false in your book. Did you change any of your previous answers? Would
you consider bringing this page to your team or even to your entire
school to jump-start discussions about writing? Take some time to look
through the appendices. There are several useful examples included. One
we’d like to point out to you is Appendix L- The Genre Characteristics
Excerpt on page A-13. Look to the Writing Essentials companion website
at www.heinemann.com/writingessentials for the entire chart as well as
directions to assist you playing the DVD.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ASSIGNMENT
NINE: Final Course Reflection - Critically examine your current
literacy program and develop realistic goals to improve your
instruction. Also reflect on the balance between your home and school
life. If our students are to become happy, literate people, they need
happy, balanced teachers. BRIEFLY, share several of your goals with the
class by posting them to the blog for this final assignment.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Thanks for taking our course!!!! Mary & Jackie!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-84645513604643984282017-05-21T18:46:00.002-07:002017-05-21T18:46:40.026-07:00Assignment Eight- Written Reflection- Sections 4&5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sections Four and Five- Advocacy Is Also Essential and Teaching In Action: Lesson Essentials</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Assignment
Eight: Read Writing Essentials Chapters 11-12 and Section Five. Reflect
on the comments below and any additional reactions you have after
reading these chapters. Post your thoughts to the course blog.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter
11: Build on Best Practice and Research • What are some of the key
research findings most relevant to writing instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are the practices of highly effective teachers?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can you be part of the ongoing professional development discussions in your building?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about test scores? What are the characteristics of high performing schools?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Think twice before adopting a “program”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
begins this chapter sharing her experiences doing residencies in
schools and the surprising (and delightful) discovery that whole school
cultures changed during the course of their work improving literacy
instruction. As she said, “This is what education should be about…whole
schools working together so that all students (can) succeed.” How is the
climate/culture in your school? On your team? One reason we continue to
look to Regie for inspiration is that we feel she is so practical.
There is not one right way or method to teach writing. “That is why
formulas, programs and recipes don’t work. Every context, school and
person is different and has different needs. Literacy is not a set of
acquired or learned skills.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 12: Make Every Minute Count• You need to “REDUCE THE PAPER LOAD!!!”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What can we do that will save us time and allow us to focus more on meaningful instruction?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Regie states, “Take more time to see the light!” Don’t get bogged down with daily worksheets and isolated exercises.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Though
this chapter is short it is full of valuable ideas and reminders! Regie
reminds us in this chapter to stop and reflect about what we are doing
in the classroom. Ask yourself: Is this the best use of my time? Is what
I’m about to do going to help my students become more joyful and
accomplished readers, writers and thinkers?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“It
might be that the best use of your time is to read a professional book,
see a movie, visit with a friend. Sharing your experiences with your
students may be a more useful way to get them to think about their
writing than marks and comments on a paper.” “It’s hard to come to
school all excited about teaching if you’ve spent hours the night before
pouring over papers.” It is a disservice to our students and ourselves
“if our out-of-school time is all about paperwork.” In fact, “Teachers’
comments on students’ papers do little to improve writing, even if the
comments are positive ones. It is far more effective to conference with
students and focus on specific writing issues with the student at your
side.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Also
“(b)e sure that most of your writing time is devoted to writing, not
preparing for writing or doing activities about writing. Safeguard
sustained writing time; it’s critical for becoming a writer. Limit
take-home work for students too, and place more emphasis on free-choice
reading. Having more reading experiences positively impacts growth in
writing skills.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
closes this chapter by reminding us to breathe, relax and enjoy
writing- and your life! “One way to reduce stress and have more energy
for teaching and advocacy is to have a life outside of school. I worry
about teachers and principals who work twelve-hour days. I have seen no
research that shows educators who work the longest hours get the best
results or that longer reading and writing projects teach more about
reading and writing. Keep evaluating whether what you’re staying late
for-or the hours of work you take home-will help your students become
more effective readers and writers."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-41461016726940028842017-05-07T18:08:00.002-07:002017-05-07T18:08:32.603-07:00Assignment Seven: Student Conference <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT SEVEN: Student Writing Conference -</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Choose
one or two children (classroom students, relatives, neighbors...) to
conduct an informal conference with. You may choose to use one of
Regie’s formats, your own or the one below, which I use in a conferring
notebook. You need to find a system that will work for you. Example 1
(and below) is the format I use for each writing conference that I hold
with students. Keep in mind that while you are conferring with students,
the majority of other students should be writing!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><em>(Note:
If you aren’t currently teaching please find a school-age child to do a
conference with. We believe you will find it is worth the effort.) </em></span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><em><br /></em></span><br style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Student Name: Date:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">? (Question- Teacher asks)- “What are you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">working on today in your writing?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">C (Compliment)- Compliment the student on one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">strategy they are using well.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">TP (Teaching Point)- What is one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">strategy/point/goal you can teach this student to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">move them forward?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">FNT (For Next Time)- What needs to be a focus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">during the next conference/what were set goals?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ASSIGNMENT
SEVEN: After completing your one or two conferences, please reflect on
how well they went and how they will impact your whole group, small
group and independent instruction in your classroom. Post your
reflective response to the blog.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-43629577322364588782017-05-07T18:07:00.001-07:002017-05-07T18:07:42.555-07:00Assignment Six: DVD Reflection<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>ASSIGNMENT SIX: DVD Reflection</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">-
Included in your text is a DVD containing video clips of Regie’s
conferences with writers in the classroom. There is a detailed
commentary accompanying the DVD on page 336 of her text. Please watch
the DVD and then look at her teaching notes beginning on page 336 (Regie
suggests just watching without notes first so that you don’t miss what
she and the students are doing.) After both watching and reading her
notes, write your reflection and please post a copy of your DVD
Reflection to the blog.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">*NOTE:
If you experience problems playing the DVD please refer to the Writing
Essentials companion website at www.heinemann.com/writingessentials for
directions for playing the DVD. Look in the upper right hand corner for
the link.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660379786515131705.post-43200254133334996982017-05-02T19:05:00.001-07:002017-05-02T19:05:18.999-07:00Assignment Five: Written Reflection- Section Three<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ASSIGNMENT FIVE: WRITTEN REFLECTION-Section Three- The Essential Writing Day Chapters 7-10</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 7: Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How might we integrate skill work into student writing rather than teaching it in isolation?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Daily Oral Language exercises – THEY DON’T WORK!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of focusing on meaning and quality first</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• All writing needs both a PURPOSE and an AUDIENCE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How thinking aloud can make your teaching more explicit</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Teaching WRITING – not just the language of writing (process, process, process)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about writing standards? In your District and State?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Key writing minilessons</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Revision – how to get students to care about it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Letting kids in on the secret that – Yes! – Conventions do matter!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we effectively use word walls?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In
Chapter 7, suitably titled “Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills,”
Regie gets to the heart of what so many teachers struggle with: “Fitting
it all in!!!” Many of the elementary teachers that we work with are
beginning to feel as though their personal motto is: “Jack of all
trades; master of none.” We just don’t have the time to teach well what
has to be taught. The only answer to this problem is to modify our
instruction so it agrees with Regie’s stance that isolated skill work
(such as Friday spelling tests, DOL, grammar worksheets…) will not help
our students grow into writers (or readers.) On page 144, Regie shares
four components for an integrated Writing Workshop:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1. Identify writing genres that would interest students (and meet district requirements)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2. Decide who the audience would be for each piece of writing.*</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">3. Model your own writing process and show students how you struggle.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">4. Have students share writing regularly (for both celebration and great teaching moments.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">*This
created the biggest change in my own class’s writing - once my students
began to write with an audience in mind, the quality of writing shot
right up!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Regie
also gets to the heart of what writing with “voice” really is and
addresses how to teach children to write with an honest voice in their
own writing. She describes voice as “the writer’s unique personality on
paper, his own melody in words, her ‘mark’ as an individual. To write
with voice, the writer has to be interested in the writing.” We think
that many teachers and students are unclear as to how to add true voice
to their writing. Regie suggests, “Voice is in the details – but details
that show the real person and story behind the words, not just details
for the sake of adding more words…”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Integrating
those isolated editing skills such as grammar, punctuation, and
spelling into our writing will increase the efficiency of our
instruction. Bottom line – if the students care about their writing, are
writing for a specific audience, and understand that “the importance of
editing (and spelling conventionally) is to make their message clear
and easy to read for their audience – or reader, they take this job
seriously and work hard at making their writing clear.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 8: Organize for Daily Writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What is our definition of Writing Workshop? What does Regie say?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we have student choice within a structure?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of writing talk (teachers and students)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The ultimate nightmare for all of us…scheduling…finding the time to write everyday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The importance of routines, organization and modeling expected behavior</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Genre study – why it’s important to have both school-wide and district-wide conversations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• The possibilities within genres</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Figuring
out a way to “fit it all in” is usually one of the most frustrating
things many of us face. It starts at the beginning of the year as we
first plan our daily schedule and continues throughout the remainder of
the year. Considering how you will create your schedule to include a
solid chunk of time for both reading and writing will probably be the
most stressful piece to the start of your year.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Create
a Comprehensive Literacy Framework: Play with your time and consider
what changes you might make in your daily literacy framework for next
year. Take a look at the samples that Regie provides on pages 185-187
for some possibilities. You do not have to post your schedule, but we
believe this is a worthwhile activity to complete on your own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 9: Conference with Students</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What is the purpose of a Writing Conference?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What are the different types of Writing Conferences?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can Share be used effectively?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How to conduct a productive conference</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about management and routines?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We
are so glad that this chapter talks about Share during Writer’s
Workshop. Too often this component is skipped by teachers who feel there
isn’t enough time in the day to “fit it all in.” However, it’s a vital
piece of the workshop and beneficial to all the students. Share sessions
are an additional time to teach. The teachers in my school are quite
comfortable using Share as their mini-lesson if the need arises. Given
the reality of daily schedules they were finding that they couldn’t have
a mini-lesson, confer and share everyday. They then realized that their
Shares sometimes were the minilessons. For more information about Share
we recommend looking at Leah Mermelstein’s Don’t Forget To Share: The
Crucial Last Step in the Writing Workshop. In this slim book, Leah
explains in detail four types of Share: Content Share, Craft Share,
Process Share and Progress Share.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The
“Tips for Successful Whole-Class Shares and Conferences” on page 215
are excellent ones to keep in mind. The bottom line for Conferences and
Shares is that students should feel successful and want to continue to
write. Make sure what you say to the child encourages them to keep on
writing. “The conference is secondary; the student as writer and
confident learner is primary.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chapter 10: Make Assessment Count</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Understanding how rubrics work</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• What about Test Prep? THE BEST TEST PREP IS EXCELLENT TEACHING!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• How can we collect reliable data on students’ writing throughout the day?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">• Guidelines for grading and providing evidence for parents, administrators and the public</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“There
is lots of writing assessment going on these days, but little of it
actually improves the quality of students’ writing.” As Regie continues
she points out that this ‘assessment’ “is seldom used to improve daily
instruction.” This chapter is about becoming more knowledgeable about
assessments. Regie notes, that unless teachers know how to teach writing
well, it can be a waste of time to examine students’ writing and place
students on a writing continuum. She encourages you, as a staff to
“write together, study together, converse together, gather school-wide
data, analyze these data and set goals for improving writing
instruction. There is no shortcut to helping students become effective
writers and there is no program you can buy that will do it for you.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Remember
to use rubrics judiciously and not overdo it. They should be “used as
an evaluation tool, not as the driving instructional force.” “Use
professional common sense. It is not advisable to apply rubrics to ALL
writing nor to score ALL writing. Just as our students need lots of
practice reading many texts without the expectation that they will be
assessed on everything they read, they need lots of practice writing
without being assessed on everything they write.” (Page 243)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have
your students do a lot of writing! “Extensive writing across the
curriculum as part of an excellent writing program is the best
preparation for doing well on (standardized) tests. Readers have to read
avidly to become readers and the same holds true for writers. Kids who
write a lot develop higher-order thinking and understanding that
translates to higher achievement on all types of tests.” Be sure to
check out “Try It Apply It” on page 246 and throughout the chapter for
ideas to incorporate into your program.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As
Regie points out in this chapter, “The joy has gone out of writing.” We
need to “concentrate on developing kids as learners rather than kids as
test takers.”</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8