This document contains the agenda for a class on integrating reading and writing. The agenda includes peer reviewing student essays, completing editing worksheets to provide feedback, and a process for reading an article including identifying main ideas and details, discussing questions in pairs, and writing responses to discussion questions for homework.

1. Writing 2
IECP
Fall 2012
Nikki Mattson

2. Agenda
• Idiom
• Peer reviewing + editing
• Reading and writing integration

4. Peer reviewing
• Complete the checklist about your partner’s essay
• Share your answers with your partner
• Give Nikki your checklist
• Complete the editing worksheet
• Share your edits with your partner
• Give Nikki your editing worksheet

5. Name of Editor:____________________ Name of Essay writer:________________________
Part of sentence with an error Type of Correction
Example: error
My sister she had to wear a school pronoun My sister had to wear a school uniform.
uniform.
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6. Integrating Reading + Writing
• Goals
• Higher-level skills - critical thinking,
summarizing, responding to a text

7. Pre-reading

12. Reading
• 1) Read the article. You may read silently or aloud with your partner.
(15 minutes)
• 2) Complete “Main Ideas” and “Details” (10 minutes)
• 3) Discuss your responses with your partner (5 minutes)
• 4) Check the answers as a whole class (5 minutes)
• 5) Write 5-8 sentences for each “What Do You Think” question.
Your responses will be discussed and collected during class on
Thursday. (10 minutes)

13. HW
• Complete your “What do you think”
responses (5-8 sentences for each
question).
• Edit your essay (with your partner’s
feedback) and bring the final copy to class
on Thursday.