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Student Writing Tips, Ideas, and Resources to help implement College and Career-Ready Standards Tips, Ideas, and Resources to help implement College and Career-Ready Standards Slide 2 http://fhslibrarymedia.wikispaces.com/ Presentations http://fhslibrarymedia.wikispaces.com/ Presentations June Chandler Fairview High School Librarian jchandler@ccboe.org June Chandler Fairview High School Librarian jchandler@ccboe.org Slide 3 Presentation Overview CCRS & Key Shifts Writing Anchor Standards Specific Standard Applications (examples) See it in practice... Benefits gained from writing Writing Activities Writing Instruction Tips More examples Wait theres more Teaching and Web Resources Bibliography and links Slide 4 Writing and CCRS Standards Slide 5 Key Shifts in Teaching & Learning Schoolwide Literacy (Content Area Literacy) Increased Rigor (more challenging) Reading Informational Complex Text Writing Across Content Areas Using Evidence Increased Student Engagement Increased Strategic Teaching Practices and Assessments Slide 6 Reading gets students to college. The CCSS and Schoolwide Instructional Changes: Implementing the Common Core State Standards by Mel Riddle, Director of High School Services at NASSP. Writing Keeps them there. Slide 7 Slide 8 CCRS & Writing Common Core Standards (Literacy) ALEX CCRS (pdf) Oregon State DeptOregon State Dept. list exemplars by grade level Writing Exemplars Grade 3 Oregon - Informative Report CCR Anchor Standard 9. "Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research." (pg. 38) Slide 9 Lesson Idea: Child LaborChild Labor How does each part of the lesson prepare students for writing? What skills do students develop in the lesson? How could the scaffolds the teacher uses be taken away as students gain fluency? Slide 10 One cannot write effectively about a topic that he/she does not understand. (Good readers make good writers.) Written output is a great way to assess student knowledge Writing is an essential skill just like reading Helping students learn to express themselves can contribute to better behavior and self-esteem Students who write clearly, think clearly. Thinking clearly helps students be better decision-makers Writing is power Slide 11 Writing Activities Ideas Note-taking Researching & Citing sources Journaling & Blogging Summarizing or Cubing The Writing Process; 6Traits+16Traits+1 Solar system web pages Civil War newspapers lab reports Immigrant journals science fair abstracts play scripts R.A.F.T. papers (ROW; Audience; Format; Topic)R.A.F.T. papers biographies of scientists interview questions timeline narratives response-note taking formats, and storyboards for film or slide presentations Slide 12 Writing Instruction Tips The Writing Process: o Pre-writing o Drafting o Revising o Proofreading o Publishing 6+1 Writing Traits 1. Ideas & Content 2. Organization 3. Voice 4. Word Choice 5. Conventions 6. Sentence Fluency 7. Presentation Slide 13 Slide 14 Writing in math Thought Process Writing - Using step-by- step procedures Writing Across the Curriculum (pdf- featured resource) Writing Across the Curriculum by Steve Peha Slide 15 Lesson Activity Idea: Math Tabloid Gossip Hypotenuse Caught in Love Triangle Students Write Tabloid Tabulations in a Math Gossip Magazine (As a math review before taking a standardized test.) By Joe Bellacero and Tom Murray National Writing Project Slide 16 TWIRLS Thinking Writing Investigating Reading Listening Speaking Thinking Writing Investigating Reading Listening Speaking (Click on picture to see video) Slide 17 Teaching Resources http://www.readingquest.org/strat/compo sition.html http://www.readingquest.org/strat/home.h tml http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp http://www.gtps.k12.nj.us/CURRIC/writin g/index.htmhttp://www.gtps.k12.nj.us/CURRIC/writin g/index.htm (Writers Workshop) Plus more resources and links on the bibliography! Slide 18 Web Tools & Resources Build A Book Comic GeneratorComic Generator (RWT); ToonDoo or Free Templates ToonDooFree Templates Make a Pageflip Cool Tools for Schools XtranormalXtranormal (ends 7/31/13) OWLOWL (Purdue) Shmoop! AwesomeStories 4Teachers.org 6+1 Traits of Writing 6+1 Writing Rubrics 21 Classes Edublogs Edublogs (AFAR Blog)AFAR Blog Biography Maker Culham Writing Smore Smore & Piktochart (FHSL)PiktochartFHSL Slide 19 Presentation Overview CCRS & Key Shifts Writing Anchor Standards Specific Standard Applications (examples) See it in practice... Benefits gained from writing Writing Activities Writing Instruction Tips More examples Wait theres more Teaching and Web Resources Bibliography and links Slide 20 PLEASE SEND ME YOUR FEEDBACK IF YOU FOUND THESE RESOURCES HELPFUL OR IF YOU FIND OTHERS YOU WISH TO ADD! Thank you for attending the workshop!