Welcome to Session 1
Reading/WritingConnection
Writing at UPMSWriting at UPMSWarm Up Activity
• Directions: Use any Thinking Maps of your choice to highlight the Writing Strategies you use in your classroom.
• Be Creative• Use Color• Add Pictures
Write…From theBeginning
K-3
Write…From theBeginning
K-5
Write…For theFuture6-12
Personaland
ImaginativeNarrative
Personaland
ImaginativeNarrative
andExpository
Writing
Writing to Explain (Why, How, POV)
Summary/ParaphraseWriting to PersuadeWriting To InformProblem/Solution
Writing to EvaluateCause and EffectWriting to Define
Response to Literature
Descriptive WritingAutobiographical Incident
This is the DomainProgression fromWrite…From the Beginning to Write…For the Future?
Orlando 2006 scores Growth in students scoring 3.5+
• Edgewater HS 77% ---- 78%• Olympia HS 85% ---- 88%• Oak Ridge HS 55% --- 59%• Jones HS 44% --- 66%• Apopka MS 71 % --- 80%• Howard MS 62 % --- 71%• Liberty MS 63% --- 71%• Stonewall Jackson MS 61 % --- 67%
Edgewater HS ESOLEdgewater HS ESOL2005 to 20062005 to 2006
32 1032 10thth graders graders25 passed with 3.5 or higher25 passed with 3.5 or higherOut of 25, 2 scored a 6, 3 scored a 5, Out of 25, 2 scored a 6, 3 scored a 5, the remaining scored 3.5-4.5the remaining scored 3.5-4.5No U’sNo U’sJust 1 student scored a 1.0 who had Just 1 student scored a 1.0 who had been at school for less than 1 weekbeen at school for less than 1 weekThe additional 6 who did not pass The additional 6 who did not pass scored between 2-3.0scored between 2-3.0
What is theintended outcome of Write…For the
Future?
Good (Effective) WritingThrough:
•Structure•Strategies [Activities]
•Style/Voice (Conferencing)•Scoring (Analytic)
The Four S’s
The 4 M’s= MasteryThe 4C’s= Brain Research
• Mapping (visual• Modeling (show)• Monitoring (1 chunk at
a time)• Mastery
Based upon quantity and quality!
• Color (Red, Black, Blue, Green)
Retain 20%20% more 3 weeks, 33% 6 weeks
• Consistency• Chuncking• Common Visual
Language
What is “Good “ Writing?• Generating ideas (for different
purposes, audiences, and in different contexts)
• Organizing and prioritizing those ideas
• Revising the ideas and the writer’s language
• ***Using a range of strategies, such as elaboration, classification, description, comparison and contrast, and cause and effect
• Editing one’s own work
• Creating a final product(adapted from the ELA Standard Course of Study)
In other words, supporting details are no longer adequate! Students should be using multiple strategies to develop support and elaboration!
A manual written--A manual written--
• To be teacher friendly• To assist teachers in preparing
students for multiple types of reading and writing
assignments• To serve as a resource and
quick reference
HOW WILL WRITE…FOR THE FUTURE ASSIST STUDENTS IN
WRITING?
• To become more focused in their writingTo become more focused in their writing• To become more organized in their writingTo become more organized in their writing• To add more support for their main ideasTo add more support for their main ideas• To use more effective transitional devices To use more effective transitional devices
in their writingin their writing• To demonstrate a greater command of To demonstrate a greater command of
conventions in their writingconventions in their writing
The WFF ManualThe WFF Manual
Time to get to work…
Benchmark: LA.A. 1.3.2/1.4.2Benchmark: LA.A. 1.3.2/1.4.2
The student uses a variety of strategies –The student uses a variety of strategies –
• to analyze words and textsto analyze words and texts• to draw conclusions/inferencesto draw conclusions/inferences• to analyze context and word structure to analyze context and word structure
cluesclues• to recognize organizational patternsto recognize organizational patterns
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SPINE
The Backbone;
Spinal Column
A pointed, hard growth of an animal;
as a porcupine’s
quill
The hinged
back of a book
A pointed, hard
growth on a plant, as
a thorn
While at your desk, you should sit with your spine straight.
The spines of the cactus really hurt
me.
Definition And
Part of Speech
Image
Synonym
Antonym
Context Sentence
Original Sentence
WordWord
PropagandaPropaganda
information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
noun
hype
downplay
Old Major uses some techniques of propaganda
in his speech to the animals
Most politicians use propaganda to get people to vote for them
Your Turn!
Choose from the list below and create Vocab Circle Maps on 3 of the words.
•Totalitarianism•Advocate•Tyranny•Pre-eminent•Expound•Unalterable
•Obstinate•Cryptic•Pretext•Manifest•Articulate•laborious
*All words above are vocabulary from Animal Farm*
