We’re All Writers: Inquiry Team Burnaby Dec. 11, 2014 Faye Brownlie Slideshare.net/fayebrownlie/burnabywri>ng
We’re All Writers: Inquiry Team Burnaby
Dec. 11, 2014 Faye Brownlie
Slideshare.net/fayebrownlie/burnabywri>ng
Beliefs about Writing • Wri>ng is thinking • Write daily • Precede wri>ng with talk, reflec>on, >me • Focus on meaning • Explicitly teach wri>ng and provide >me for prac>ce and feedback
• Feedback and co-‐developed criteria support the development of wri>ng
• Wri>ng is cross-‐curricular
Model Guided practice Independent practice Independent application
Pearson & Gallagher (1983)
Stages of the Writing Process • Pre-‐wri>ng • DraQing • Edi>ng • Proofreading • Publishing and presen>ng
Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School (gr.4-12)
-‐Steve Graham and Dolores Perin
Alliance for Excellent Educa>on www.all4ed.org/publica1ons/Wri1ngNext •
Elements necessary to learn to write well and to use wri>ng as a tool for
learning
• All supported by rigorous research • Do not cons>tute a full wri>ng curriculum
1. Wri>ng strategies 2. Summariza>on
3. Collabora>ve Wri>ng
4. Specific Product Goals
5. Word Processing
6. Sentence Combining
7. Prewri>ng 8. Inquiry Ac>vi>es
9. Process Wri>ng Approach
10. Study of Models
11. Wri>ng for Content Learning
Sentence Combining -‐ basic prac>ce
• It is a dull day. • It is raining. • I don’t want to go outside. • I don’t want to get groceries.
Sentence Combining -‐ with student wri>ng
• The Arc>c pup starts to hunt at 14-‐15 weeks. They eat field mice. When they hunt they listen under the snow. (21-‐16)
• The Arc>c fox are born in May or June. They are born brown. Some>mes the mother has 11 pups. (19-‐10) Naomi, gr.3
Sentence Combining -‐ with content
• Mary Gray was selling. • Her merchandise was microwaves. • High unit price was of crucial importance
to her. • She made a decision. • The decision was to soften her position. • The position concerned delivery and
warranty.
Quick Writes • Give a word • 15 seconds to think • 2-‐3 minutes to write • Word count • Find a phrase, short piece you’d like to share • As the students stand and share, listen for nuggets you might be able to use in some way in your wri>ng
• Paint, train – the words we used today
Picture Prompts • Talk to your partner about what you are seeing, wondering, thinking about in this picture…think about how it connects to ‘paint’ and ‘train’
• Share 2-‐3 pictures. • Walk and talk with a partner: what is the story behind the pictures? What is the story/text that is sparked in your thinking by the words, the wri>ng, the conversa>on, the pictures.
• Quick write of 10 minutes or so.
Critical Literacy, Gr. 12 with Amy Stevenson
The Glass Castle-Jeannette Walls
• Analyzing habits of thinking, reading, wri>ng, speaking
• Understanding social contexts and consequences
• Deep meaning
• Applying deep meaning to self
Goal: begin an exploration with critical analysis/critical literacy
• Set a scene • Personalize this scene and sketch • Write 2 minutes in response to your sketch – feeling, ac>on
• Pass your paper. 2nd student reads and responds/adds on – 2 minutes
• Repeat 2 more >mes • Read your own paper, others responses, and discuss – 5-‐10 minutes