WELCOME WRITERS

Professional Learning Opportunity for Teaching Writing Presented by Kathryn Starke

*Does your classroom celebrate authors, books, and writing? How many experiences a day do you provide for students to write? �(Recommendation: 30 minutes daily)

��Writing Process: Editing��

• Grammar: Mini Lesson (8 minutes)
• Parts of Speech Mini Lessons
• Mad Libs
• Authentic Writing Process: edit

for verb consistency

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Daily Guided Writing Planning�(10 minutes)�

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• Mini Lessons on Writing Standards
• Using Mentor texts for Writing Instruction
• Writing Process
• Writing Conferences
• Independent Writing Station
• Guided Writing in Small Group Instruction

Examples of Mini Lessons

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-Sequencing

-BME graphic organizers (Bold Beginning, Mighty Middle, Excellent Ending)

-Incredible Introductions (Tuck Everlasting)

-Transitional Words

-Compelling Conclusions

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Your Turn

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-Choose one of the following fairy tale examples and create an alternate ending.

• Cinderella
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Little Mermaid

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Daily Student Writing Experiences�(12 minutes)�

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• Mentor Text Modeling
• Writing About Reading
• Writing Across Curriculum/Content Area Writing
• Writing Process
• Creative Writing
• Prompt Writing
• Timed Writing

Recap and Rethink-

• How does this model currently fit in your instructional practices? Thoughts? Questions?

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TEACHING WRITING IS LIKE…�

(Stop and Jot Moment)

Relationship between reading �and writing=words

Recap and Rethink-

• How does this information currently fit in your instructional practices? Thoughts? Questions?

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• How do I teach students the writing process while incorporating SOL’s in mini lessons and writing conferences?

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Where are you in the process?

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Writing Process: Brainstorming

Ways for Writers to Express their Ideas

• Daily Journal Entries
• Writing to a Prompt
• Free Choice Writing
• Timed Writing/Story Starters ***Your Turn
• Dice Writing

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Ways for Writers to Create their Ideas

• Brainstorming
• Mapping/Webbing
• List (Based on Background Knowledge)
• Pictures
• Tell a Story/Record a Story

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Writing Process: Editing-grammar and Revising-Word Choice�

• Vivid Verbs and Amazing Adjectives
• Synonyms
• Building Vocabulary
• Self edit check of Timed Writing *
• Peer revision* (stretch the sentence)

Writing Process: Revising-�Sentence Fluency�

• Like reading, fluent writing is smooth, varied, and rhythmic with well-built sentences.

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• Your Turn-
• Sentence Stretching Activity:
• The girl ran down the hill.

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Writing Conferences

• One-on-one time with students during the writing process
• Check in with students during their stage of writing
• Focus on celebrating strengths in writing and reteaching challenges (grammar, organization/sequence, spelling, etc.)

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Student Writing Portfolios

• Collection of Student Work
• Student Choice to Revise and Publish
• Author Share *(Your turn!)

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Where are you in the process?

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Recap and Rethink-

• How does the writing process currently fit in your instructional practices? Thoughts? Questions?

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