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WRITING TO UNDERSTANDBecoming Literacy Profilers by Making the Connection Between Writing and Reading

Criminal Profiler Literacy Profiler

Teachers create literacy profiles as they examine and analyze students' skills in writing and reading to guide instruction in literacy. Teachers use their profiling expertise in classroom management, creating formative assessments, intervention planning, and conferencing with students.

Reading + Writing = Literacy

Assessment Web

Student Literacy Profiles

What do Readers Do

• Writers:• Attend to conventions of print• Encode words from sounds they

hear in word• Convey ideas and information• Use conventions• Organize their ideas• Attend to language and word

choice.• Monitor their writing• Anticipate their audience• Use meaning-making strategies

for their reader to understand.

What do Writers Do

• Readers:• Attend to conventions of print• Decode words• Use the pictures and graphics to

get meaning and expand• Attend to the writing conventions• Attend to an author’s language

and word choice• Listen for sentence fluency• Make inferences to fill in the

necessary• Use meta-cognitive strategies

such as visualizing, summarizing, etc.

What does this say about the student?

Why Creighton is a Top 25 Basketball team

Creighton is one of the Top 25 Basketball team! The players, the coaches, and the games they’ve won make them a top 25 Basketball team.

First, they have a player who has won the Larry Bird trophy and is an All-American. His name is Doug McDermott, he averages 24.6 points a game and has one of the best three point shooting percentages in the country. Also they have Gregory Echenique the defensive player of the year in 2012. He averages 1.5 blocks a game and 8.2 points. He even played for Venezuela in the Olympics.

Goals for Students

My Goals for My Readers

• Skills and strategies for figuring out unknown words

• Reading a variety of genres

• Write and talk about what they read

• A Love for reading

My Goals for My Writers

• Skills and strategies to communicate ideas

• Write in a variety of genres• Read and talk about what

they write• A Love for Writing

Comprehension

Planning Web for GoalsReading

WritingSkills and Strategies

Content Areas

Clear Expectations

How we are going to be scored?

Making the Case

Want to teach a child to read?

Give her a pencil.

Want to teach a child to write?

Give him a book.

If you can say it, you can write it.

If you can write it, you can read it.

If you can read it, you can write it.

Steps to Enhance Reading through Writing

1. Write About What they Read

2. Teaching Writing Skills and Processes for Creating Text

3. Increase How Much Students Write

• Read It

Think It

1. Write About What You Read• Write about texts they read

• Writing personal reactions• Write summaries of a text

• About guided reading books• About personal choice books• Across the content

• Write notes about a text• Create questions for a text• Answer questions about a text

Reader’s Notebooks• Thoughtful Logs

http://lifein4b.blogspot.com/p/thoughtful-logs.html

Double Entry Journal

Making Connections to Reading

Classroom Idea• Guided Journal Writing

• Students respond to text by answering open-ended questions about it in writing.• Ex: Students might be asked to analyze why they think character acted

as they did and indicate what they would do in the same situation.

• Analytic Essay• Students asked to write about the material they are reading in

essay format.• Ex: After reading about the history of the industrial revolution, student

might be asked to write an essay in which they identify the 3 most important reasons for industrial growth during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Classroom Idea• Text Mapping• How to write a summary

• Identify or select the main information• Delete trivial information• Delete redundant information, and• Write a short synopsis of the main and supporting information for

each paragraph.

• Five finger summary for primary students• Somebody, wanted, but, so, in the end

Classroom Idea• Concept Mapping for Note Taking

• Inspiration example

• Create and Answer questions written about a text

Recommend Reading

http://biblionasium.com/#tab/all-books

http://www.goodreads.com/

2. Teaching Writing Skills and Processes

• Writing Process• Comprehension Strategies• Where Ideas Come From• Teaching Text Structures• Combining Sentences and Disassemble Sentences• Genre Studies

Phonemic Awareness

Spelling and Reading Fluency Connection

• Word Study• Word Families• Prefixes and Suffixes• Greek and Latin Roots

• Figuring out unknown words in texts• Context Clues• Breaking into parts

3. Increase how much students write• Increase how often they produce their own texts• Goal lines on the paper• Charting their improvements in writing• Keeping beginning work to compare

Writer’s Notebooks

Classroom Idea• Quick Writes• Writing in response to photos

• Valuable for inference skills

• Comic Books• Dialogue• The next great novel• Letter Writing• Blogging

Anchor Charts

http://www.hallco.org/literacy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=3

Next Steps in Instruction• Mini Lessons• Conferencing• Guided Writing• Pair with a Strong Students for a

collaborative piece• Buddy with older student• Read, Read, Read!• Write, Write, Write!

How we help the student grow?• Confidence• Models• Increase productivity• Time to practice independently• Choice• Scaffolding Instruction• Feedback• Goal Setting

Modeling• Teachers lead by Example• Share what you are reading personally

• Professional and for pleasure• Books you abandoned and why• Other types of reading –newspapers, recipes, magazines, cereal

boxes, blogs

• Read alouds• Writing in front of your students

• Share your writing from when you were a child/student

• Sharing your ideas and stories• Sharing your struggles

Mentor Texts• Published Books• 20 Great Examples• Excerpts on anchor charts• Book Blessing Basket• Student Examples

Classroom Idea• Read Alouds

• What they notice about the genre• Vocabulary• Model Voice• Author’s craft and purpose• 6 Traits• Think Aloud and Strategies

Read like a writer, write like a reader.

Book Observation Chart

Nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

-Richard Peck

Any Questions?

Bibliography• What Student Writing Teaches Us: Formative

Assessment in the Writing Workshop by Mark Overmeyer. 2009.

• How’s It Going? By Carl Anderson. 2000.• “Writing to Read.” A Report from Carnegie Corporation of

New York. 2010.• Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible

Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop by Sharon Taberski. Heinemann. 2011.

• Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop by Sibberson and Szymusiak. Scholastic. 2008.