Write More to Learn More
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In this session, author Angela Peery shares writing strategies that can be used across the curriculum in order to heighten engagement, increase critical thinking, and refine craft. Angela is the author of Writing Matters in Every Classroom and has developed the strategies that will be shared in collaboration with teachers of all grade levels throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia in the past decade. Participants will be asked to consider how they can make each strategy uniquely their own.
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Write More to Learn More
- 1. WRITE MORE TO LEARN MORE! UNCW Conference forTeachers of Writing Angela Peery, Ed. D.
- 2. Additional Materials Under theAuthentic Literacy link at drangelapeery.com On my Dr. Angela Peery Facebook page Follow me on Slideshare.net Email: drangelapeery@gmail.com
- 4. BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO…
- 5. WHY HAVE ALL STUDENTS ENGAGE? Author and educator Mike Schmoker says this in his book Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning: “The lesson to be learned from the last 30 years should be this: We will never educate all students until we appreciate the value of time and stop preventing them from engaging in… immense amounts of reading, discussion, and writing. These are the indispensable and primary means of acquiring content knowledge and intellectual skills.”
- 6. WHY HAVE ALL STUDENTS ENGAGE? DonovanWalling, in Writing for Understanding:Strategies to Increase Content Learning is right when he says: “Writing increases understanding in all content areas, whether math or science, social studies or foreign language, art or music, or physical education.And you don’t have to be a writing teacher in order to use writing as an instructional tool any more than you need to be a computer programmer to use a computer or an auto mechanic to drive a car.”
- 7. WHY HAVE ALL STUDENTS ENGAGE? From Applebee and Langer, Writing Instruction in America’s Schools:What Existing DataTell Us Overall, since 1971, student literacy achievement has been holding steady. Using achievement level standards developed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the National Commission onWriting (2003) points out that while most students have mastered the basics, few can create prose that is “precise, engaging, and coherent” (p. 16), approximately equivalent to what NAEP calls “proficient.”
- 8. Graham and Hebert have made the argument quite eloquently in Writing to Read: Evidence for HowWriting Can Improve Reading: “The financial and social costs of poor literacy have been well documented…The consequences of poor reading and writing skills not only threaten the well-being of individualAmericans, but the country as a whole. Globalization and technological advances have changed the nature of the workplace. Reading and writing are now essential skills in most white- and blue-collar jobs. Ensuring that adolescents become skilled readers and writers is not merely an option for America, it is an absolute necessity.”
- 9. ENGAGEMENT
- 10. STRATEGIESTHAT HEIGHTEN ENGAGEMENT Think-ink-pair-share Alphabet brainstorming Pass the paper
- 12. ALPHABET BRAINSTORMING A N B O C P D Q E R F S G T H U I V J W K X L Y M Z
- 13. ALPHABET BRAINSTORMING: PHOTOSYNTHESIS Air N Breathe Oxygen Chlorophyll Plants D Q E R F Sunlight G T H U I V J W K X L Y M Z
- 14. ALPHABET BRAINSTORMING: FRACTIONS Add Numerator B O Common denominator Parts D Q E R Factors Subtract Greatest common factor T H U I V J Whole K X L Y M Z
- 15. ALPHABOXES A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T UV W XY Z
- 16. What applications do you see for alphabet brainstorming?
- 18. STRATEGIESTHAT SUPPORT CRITICALTHINKING Criss-cross writing Six-word text Twenty ways to look at it Triple response Quad notes
- 19. CRISS-CROSSWRITING Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Definition Based on fact, truth Defining features May be realistic or historically accurate Lines Line breaks Stanzas Examples that we have studied To Kill a Mockingbird Writers we have studied Harper Lee Jon Krakauer Nikki Giovanni
- 20. SIX-WORDTEXT Can serve as a summary of content Can be used to state the theme of a literary work Can be adapted to fit many needs and subjects
- 22. STRATEGIESTHAT SUPPORT CRITICALTHINKING Criss-cross writing Six-word text Twenty ways to look at it* Triple response* Quad notes*
- 23. STRATEGIES THAT HELP WRITERS REFINE THEIR CRAFT
- 24. STRATEGIESTHAT HELPWRITERS REFINETHEIR CRAFT Roving revisions Making appositives
- 26. HOW DOWE MOVE FORWARD AND HELP WRITERS GROW?
- 27. The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. Pat Conroy
Editor's Notes
- We have a moral and ethical imperative to help our students improve their literacy.
- Sometimes we need an easy, quick-to-implement, low-prep strategy that will increase the energy in the room.
- Set up two columns on your paper. We will brainstorm words and phrases on an elementary school topic that we’re all familiar with.
- Ask participants for ideas.
- We won’t have time to delve into all of these, but let’s look a bit more closely at the first two. There is additional information in your handout, and it will appear in my forthcoming book, Write More To Learn More.
- I just brainstormed this based on content I used to teach in 9th grade English. In your handout is an example from elementary teachers in Oregon. Basically this is a comparison matrix, a long-used strategy that helps students organize information. It can be used as a note-taking tool, a collaborative tool, and a prewriting strategy/tool.
- Let’s summarize a popular children’s book that many of us might know. Why don’t you select either Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, or The Kissing Hand? (Allow 3 minutes.) Ask some volunteers to share. See sixwordmemoirs.com for information on the (original) six-word memoirs. Also see this video --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCJyUMHaL_g
- We’re moving onto our last section now, but don’t forget that you have information on the three asterisked strategies in your handout.
- See the handout for descriptions. I recommend all the Sentence Composing books by the Killgallons. See http://www.amazon.com/Sentence-Composing-Elementary-School-Sentences/dp/0325002231/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443298043&sr=8-1&keywords=killgallon for the elementary version, but there are books for MS and HS also.