Writing has a vital role to play in developing skilled readers and thinkers. Learn how to improve student writing through direct and explicit instruction that enhances literacy knowledge and deepens students’ connection to the topics and texts they’re reading and writing about. Writing
Getting Started with Writing Workshop
In this session participants will examine research-based strategies for writing instruction, learn best practices for developing student writers through writing workshops, and build a personalized writing scope and sequence. Additionally, participants will experience their own writing workshop with a focus on opinion/argument writing. Learning outcomes: • Explain the structure of writing workshops • Develop a scope and sequence of writing instruction • Introduce genre-based instruction with mentor texts • Prepare students for writing with mini-lessons • Set up structures and a learning environment to support student writers
Recommended for: Grades 3–8 teachers Time: Three hours Item #s: In Person: 732824 Virtual: 743503 Participants: Up to 30
In this session participants will learn multiple ways to use mentor texts and mini-lessons to support writing, engage in deliberate practice for modeling, and explore how to integrate conventions instruction throughout the writing process. Participants will experience their own writing workshop with a focus on informational writing. Learning outcomes: Recommended for: Grades 3–8 teachers Time: Three hours Item #s: In Person: 732826 Virtual: 743504 Participants: Up to 30 Diving Deeper with Writing Workshop: Mentor Texts, Mini-Lessons, and Modeling
• Select and analyze mentor texts for teaching writing • Teach with mentor texts throughout the writing process • Organize, plan, and deliver writing mini-lessons • Integrate meaningful and applicable conventions instruction • Support student writing with multiple types of modeling
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