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1. Four Square Writing at Gig Harbor, WA Presented by Judith S. Gould [email_address]

2. 1. Adding Sensory Detail (Yes, I am asking you to write.)

3. Why? Regie Routman said: Write in front of your students. Think aloud as you write.

4. If you have never done this before, close your classroom door and risk it. It will get easier, I promise.

5. When you write, you see firsthand the struggles, doubts, thoughts, and processes that writers (including your students) go through.

6. When you write, you share not only your composing process but part of who you are and what matters to you. Your own insights as a writer will make you a more effective teacher of writing . - Regie Routman Conversations (2000, p. 232 )

7. 2. What is important in writing? Examining a Scoring Rubric.

8. Adding Sensory Detail

9. Content, Organization, and Style WASL Rubric

22. What does that really mean? Voice, Word Choice, & Sentence Fluency

29. Making Word Choices Ruin a perfectly good poem.

36. 3. The Importance of Detail and Elaboration A key to content and style.

38. E xample xperience vidence Elaboration (the big E)

39. “ The Art of specificity”

40. “ Specificity is generosity.”

56. Questions or Comments?

58. 5. Four Square for Informational Writing

59. Sorting and Classifying

60. Sorting and Classifying

61. Kindergarten

62. ESL – Grade One

63. Sorting and Classifying with a Summary Sentence

64. Grade One.