Join us Nov 10 for Revision Strategies and Dec 1 Writing to Learn: Reader Response Strategies to Meet CCSS

1. Revision Strategies to Elevate Writing & Meet CCSS Proficiency Requirements
November 10, 2012 9:00am-Noon University Hall 124, AASU
To fulfill Common Core Standards in all writing, and especially narrative, our students must learn strategies for revising
their writing. This workshop will demonstrate how revision (“re-seeing”) is actually the “heart” of writing and will provide
strategies to encourage students to take a second look at those first drafts. Participants will practice several easy-to-apply
strategies, including Barry Lane’s “Magic Camera” ideas, i.e., “Snapshots” and “Thoughtshots.” Activities and discussions
will be focused on meeting the Common Core Standards in writing. Student s’ writing samples from various content areas
will showcase writing improvement after revision.
Registrations and payment due by November 6
Writing to Learn: Reader Response Strategies & CCSS Text Complexity
December 1, 2012 9:00am-Noon University Hall 125, AASU
Our students sit in front of us daily—reading texts, both literary and informational. How can teachers tell if they comprehend
what they read and also train them to comprehend better and read more proficiently, independently and reflectively,
especially as standards require more complex text?
Scaffolded over the year, reader response strategies encourage students to actively engage in reading and teach students to
“read and comprehend complex literary and informational [literary nonfiction] texts independently and proficiently,” goals of
the Common Core Standards in Reading. Text response also trains students to write opinions or claims, supporting them
with textual evidence, a goal of the Common Core Standards in Writing, as well as providing opportunities to integrate
daily writing in all K-12 ELA and content-area classes, including art, music, and health.
In an interactive presentation, Lesley Roessing, CSWP Director and author of The Write to Read: Response Journals That
Increase Comprehension (Corwin Press, 2009), will illustrate the advantages of using response journals across the curriculum
and will facilitate this interactive workshop that will share literacy strategies and activities that encourage student response to
texts before, during, and after reading as well as ways in which response can train students to read more closely and
analytically.
Space is limited. Registration and payment due by November 16 is required to order books.
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CSWP REGISTRATION FORM [PLEASE PRINT ALL INFORMATION]
I am registering for (check all that apply):
 November 10 A Writing Is Never Finished! Revision Strategies that Elevate Writing to Meet CCSS ($25)
 December 1: Writing to Learn: Reader Response Strategies Across the Curriculum
(*$55 fee includes The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension)
 January 12: Informative & Research Writing ($25)
 February 2: INNOVATIVE IDEAS in LITERACY CONFERENCE with Barry Lane ($25)
Breakfast, Barry, and a choice of 2 (from 12 options) K-12 Breakout Session Workshops [see Facebook]
 March 9: Opinion/Argument Writing & the Common Core State Standards ($25)
 April 13: National Poetry Month: Teaching Narrative Writing through Poetry ($25)
Name ___________________________________ Telephone: _____________________
E-mail ________________________________________ Grade Level(s) ________
School _________________________ District ______________ Content Area(s) _____________
Mail check, payable to CSWP—AASU, in the amount of $25*/participant/workshop to:
Coastal Savannah Writing Project; College of Education; University Hall 250;
Armstrong Atlantic State University; 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah Georgia 31419
Direct any questions to: writing.project@armstrong.edu or 912.344.2702; Fax: 912-344-3436

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