week 8 - writing 2

1. Week 8
Writing 2

2. Professional Learning Conversations
• PLC: Professional Reading
– Gradually releasing responsibility to students
writing persuasive text

3. Blog # 2: Reading
• Faculty Workload: based on 40 hour week (as
if!)
– 40% teaching: 16 hours
– 40% research/writing: 16 hours
– 20% service (meetings; committees): 8 hours

4. Teaching Component
• 16 hours per week
– Teaching time: 3 hrs. x 3 = 9 hours
– Preparation: 4 hours per week
– Marking:
• Sakai Forum posts and Lit. Leaders: 1.5 x 3 = 4.5 hrs.
• Blog posts: 30 min each x 70 students = 35 hours

5. Lesson Plan Assignment
• Tips sheet
• Assessment Tool and Assignment Description
• Due date – class time week 10

6. Writing Resources
• Picture books as mentor texts for writing
– Writer’s craft
– Text forms
• Resources for mini-lessons on conventions:
– spelling, punctuation, grammar, word choice

7. Digital Resources to Support Writing/
Reading
• iPads: Sock Puppets
• Web-based: Teaching Kids News
www.teachingkidsnews.com
• News Map:
– http://newsmap.jp/
• Participate Learning )educational app reviews)
– https://www.participate.com/

8. The Writing Process
Stages of the Writing Process:
– Prewrite
– Draft
– Revise
– Edit
– Publish
– This is a recursive process. Most writers move
back and forth among the stages

9. Writing
• 1. Generate, gather, and
organize ideas and
information to write for an
intended purpose and
audience
• 3. Use editing, proofreading,
and publishing skills and
strategies, and knowledge of
language conventions, to
correct errors, refine
expression, and present their
work effectively
• 2. Draft and revise their
writing, using a variety of
informational, literary, and
graphic forms and stylistic
elements appropriate for the
purpose and audience
• 4. Reflect on and identify
their strengths as writers,
areas for improvement, and
the strategies they found
most helpful at different
stages in the writing process

10. Writing Decisions
• Audience
• Form
• Purpose
. Topic

11. Writing Task: Remembrance Day
• Select one of the writing prompts from the
bulletin board display
• Develop a draft in response to the prompt (or
an idea you have)
• Be prepared next week to share your draft
with 2 other colleagues (provide a copy for
each to read)
• Begin your draft in class today

12. Research Support
• From main site choose:
• Newspaper (provided last week)
– Canada Remembers Times
– Website: www.canada.ca/rememberthem
– Remembrance/ Information for..
– http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/inf
ormation-for

13. Next week
• Forum post:
– Week 9: Explore Resources – Auditory Resources
for Oral Communications
• Draft of Remembrance Day piece (make 2
copies)
• Blog #3: WRITING (not Oral Communications)
– Build on your Forum post on Explore Resources –
week 7 – Social media