Week 3

ENGL 3690
Writing: Elementary School
September 12, 2022
September 14, 2022
Housekeeping
Due Today:
• Pen Pal Letter – Please post document, not link
• Reading Response Week 3– No need to post link

Article of the Week

• This Week: Lauren & Kenzie
• Next Week: Jess & Kelly

Independent Reading Reflection & Link

• Due Monday, September 19th
• Instructions in Elearning

Reading Response Week 4

• Due Monday, September 19th
Overview
Objectives & Goals:
• (L.5) Motivation and Engagement
Activities:
• Take notes in Writer’s Workshop
• 3 minute Quick Write
• What are Kagan Structures?
Assessment:
• Exit Ticket
Learning Outcomes
Students will practice techniques to encourage and
assess literacy motivation and engagement,
selecting/using research-supported instructional
practices to develop meaningful interactions with
individuals and information, combined with
experiences. (L.5)
 Evidence-Based Practices in Writing
CCSS Reforms
• Students learn to write,
write to learn
• Gather, preserve, &
transmit information
• Writing about content areas
enhances learning by taking
ideas from text
• Reading & writing should be
taught separately &
together
Best Practices in Writing
• The wisdom of
professional writers
• The wisdom of teachers
• The scientific study of
writing interventions
• Writing develops from a
contextual/cognitive,
affective/motivational
viewpoint
What Are Some Best Practices in Writing?
What Can I do?
• Create a supportive
classroom (pg. 14)
• Motivation/support
• write for real audiences
• write for different purposes
• encourage responsibility
• encourage ownership
• student interactions
• self-reflection
• evaluation
Process Approach to Writing
• Use technology
• Write for different/real purposes
• Work together to compose
• Teacher assessment
• Teach writing strategies (pg. 18)
• purpose & rationale (pg. 19)
• Acquire knowledge
• reading, info gathering, genre
• Teach foundational skills
• spelling, handwriting, keyboarding,
sentence construction
Types of Writing Strategies
ü Planning/Prewrite
ü Drafting
ü Revising
ü Editing
ü Publishing
Setting Up the Writing Classroom
Chapter 2 of Best Practices outlines four
considerations for establishing the writing
classroom:
1. Time
2. Community
3. Resources
4. Collection to Authentic Audiences & Purposes
 The Writing Classroom
Devoting Productive Time
• 60 minutes =
• 30 min. instructional time
• 30 min. applying the skills
• Create routines for writing
frequently
• also helps reading
comprehension
• Writer’ Workshop
• writing
• mini-lessons
• share with peers
• 45 minutes over Literacy Block
Building a Positive Environment
• Creating opportunities for students to
plan, draft, revise and edit together
• give and receive peer feedback
• To create an engaged community of
writers teachers should:
• encourage self-regulation
• demonstrate enthusiasm
• encourage hard work using the skills
and strategies equals success
• foster social relationships and peer
conferencing before asking an adult for
help
• consider flexible seating
 The Writing Classroom
Establish Opportunities to
Collaboratively Develop
Writing
• Writing is individual and
collaborative for students
• partner writing (pg. 38)
• teacher (adults??) supervise
• meaningful talk daily (Meeting Area)
• group for support and diversity
• meaningful tasks (not worksheets)
• monitor with small group to model
activity for whole group talk
• safe environment for students to
become emotionally invested in
writing
Support Peer Response and
Review
• Embed peer response and review
processes in regular writing
assignments
• increased quality of writing
• Critical to build an effective writing
community in the classroom
• teaching the writing
process/skills/strategies offer
opportunities for student to experience
collaboration.
• students become better writers
themselves
• students respond more effectively to
their peers’ writing
What questions do you have?

Use the
Chat Box
for
Questions.
Creating Opportunities to Write for
Authentic Audiences & Purposes
Writing is inherently social in nature
q Students should practice writing for
audiences beyond the teacher
q classroom-based sharing
q students volunteer to read works in progress
q publish student work
q write petitions
q teacher acknowledges work during share-time
q value of Class Meetings
 Students are better writers when
they see their teacher writing too!
When teachers are excited about
writing, so are their students!
q Teachers model writing
q write together as a class in collaboration
q write for your students and share
q leave notes on desks for students
q Journal writing where teacher responds
Prompt for Monday Exit Tickets
Why is it important to have good
classroom management skills in the
Writing Classroom. Name and explain two
classroom procedures that should be
taught at the beginning of the school
year that would benefit the Writing
Classroom Community.
What do you think?
Quote from Cultivating Genius
Using their minds and pens as a form of
literary activism, they demand systems,
structures, curriculum, and instruction that
is connected to their lives.

Take Away Ideas

Threaded throughout these demands is the naming
and demands for culturally relevant education
spoken by youth. Reflect on these demands made in
1969. Do you think they were reasonable demands?
Do you think education has improved for diverse
students and teachers?
What questions do you have?

Use the
Chat Box
for
Questions.
Conclusion Chapter 2
Exit Ticket Prompt
Read the Bullet Points
from pg. 47. Pick one
question to answer
(approx. 5 sentences)
realizing that someday
you will be designing
your own Writing
Classroom.