Expository Reading Expository Reading & Writing& Writing

ERWC

ERWCERWC1. Weekly /Unit Goals

--Active Reading Reading Stamina Annotating--Writing (authentic writing assignments)Format/Structured vs. Non-Format Joining the conversation

2. Strategies--Help us achieve reading & writing goalsReading examples: Making predictions, thinking about the audience, determining purposeWriting examples: summary, analyzing, annotating

Wendy Connelly Expository Reading and Writing

What students can not do…

Only 1/3 of students are prepared for the two most frequently assigned writing tasks:

– Analyzing information or arguments– Synthesizing information from several sources

**Therefore, this will be our focus!

Wendy Connelly Expository Reading and Writing

Why Expository Reading & Writing??

Wendy Connelly Expository Reading and Writing

Writing and Reading Writing and Reading ConnectionConnection

Writing Reading

must go hand in hand!

Wendy Connelly Expository Reading and Writing

Step #1: Prereading Step #1: Prereading ActivitiesActivities

Getting Ready to ReadIntroducing Key ConceptsSurveying the TextMaking Predictions & Asking QuestionsIntroducing Key Vocabulary

Engage in

intellectual

discussions

(74%)

Wendy Connelly Expository Reading and Writing

Step #2:Reading & Step #2:Reading & Rereading ActivitiesRereading Activities

First ReadingLooking at LanguageRereading the TextAnalyzing Stylistic ChoicesConsider the Structure of the Text

Ask Provocative

Questions (74%)

Wendy Connelly Expository Reading and Writing

Step #3: Step #3: Postreading Postreading Activities Activities Summarizing & Responding

Thinking CriticallyConnecting Reading to WritingNegotiating Voices

Generate

hypotheses (72%)

& Exhibit respect

for others

viewpoints (71%

Collegiate Writing Collegiate Writing ExpectationsExpectationsI. Amount of Writing:

Quarter classes2 short 1000-1500 word essays OR one short essay and one long research paperA midterm exam with short answer essay questions and a longer final exam with longer questions

Semester CoursesTwo midterm examsFinal examLong analytical, research paper of at least 8 pages

Our Students will…Our Students will…

……learn to write learn to write according to collegiate according to collegiate

expectationsexpectationsThis class will teach students to write in a college English, science,

history, math or business class.

……learn to take a learn to take a systematic approach systematic approach

to vocabularyto vocabulary~Learning to understand words by using context,

--as opposed to passing over word and missing the meaning of the

sentence.

**We won’t be memorizing vocabulary

FocusFocusWe will read current event articles that contain

content designed to stimulate students—ie. Global warming, steroids in sports, juvenile justice, politics of food, etc.

The goal is to prepare students for the reading and writing demands of their college professors

What is Expository What is Expository Reading Reading

& Writing??& Writing??~Unit Plans-arranged by subject

~Reading Expectations~A New Way to Read

~Writing Expectations~Grading: 25% Language Development

/Participation, 50% Writing, 25% Reading (including Indep. Reading)

Attendance PolicyAttendance Policy~Essays and Major Assignments

~Daily/short-term assignments

~FIELDTRIPS, PARTIAL DAY ABSENCES

~Make-up work

Parent Parent InvolvementInvolvement

~Critical to students success

~New Thinking vs Old Thinking

**Writing Conferences

Web PageWeb Pagehttp://tinyurl.com/FlemingERWC5

• Class Documents• Calendar & Assignments (Absences & Make-up

work)• Standards• Students will be asked occasionally to print out

materials from the website for class.

Communication• Sign-in Sheets : Class Email Updates• Email: hfleming@pleasantonusd.net• Phone: (925) 461-6600 • Conferences:

• Before school : 7:30am-8:00am Tues, Thurs.• After school: 3:00-4:00 Fridays• By appointment

• Please note: I am able to respond more quickly to email than to voice messages.