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This document outlines a program for literacy volunteers in Michigan aimed at helping adults improve their writing skills, emphasizing that writing is a teachable process. It includes various instructional strategies, activities, and the significance of effective written communication in personal and professional contexts. The program is supported by the National Human Resources Development and focuses on preparing individuals for 21st century employment.
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- 1. Writing: An EssentialSkill Michigan’s Adult Literacy Project
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- 3. Getting Started This presentationcontains audio. Please adjust your speakers or earphones.
- 4. Welcome and Thanksin Advance So You’ve Decided to Become a Literacy Volunteer
- 5. Helping Adults BecomeBetter Writers Writing – An Essential Skill for Life
- 6. Helping Adults BecomeBetter Writers “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...” Lawrence Clark Powell American Librarian, writer, and critic, 1906-2001
- 7. Time to Reflect Whatdid you write today?
- 8. Teaching Writing Beliefs about theTeaching of Writing Everyone has the capacity to write, writing can be taught, and teachers can help students become better writers. People learn to write by writing. Writing is a process. Writing grows out of many different purposes. Conventions of finished and edited texts are important to readers and therefore to writers. Writing and reading are related.
- 9. What You WillLearn • Assess attitude and current writing skills • Review writing process • Practice the process • Explore activities
- 10. Getting Started Attitude makesa difference! Attitude in Writing Survey
- 11. Assessing Current WritingSkills • Explain purpose for writing sample • Provide a topic • Have student write one or two paragraphs • Observe the student as he/she writes • Review the writing sample • Build a plan
- 12. Review and Plan •Review the writing sample • Review your notes • Build a plan
- 13. Review and Plan •Review the writing sample • Review your notes • Build a plan
- 14. The Challenge! Ask meto tell you about the topic, and I can. Ask me to write about the topic, and I struggle.
- 15. Making Connections • Contextualize •Show how it will be used • Use authentic materials Preparing Workers
- 16. “The importance ofwritten communication skills at work cannot be emphasized enough. Misspelled words, improper sentence structure, or inability to convey thoughts and ideas clearly, reflects right back to the writer, and leaves an unfavorable impression on co- workers, customers, and management, and could possibly prevent further success on the job.” Laura Mitchell, Human Resources Manager Wayne Wire Cloth Products, Inc., Traverse City, MI (2009)
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- 18. Prewrite/Plan • Journal • Brainstorm •Use an graphic organizer
- 19. Organize • Create anoutline • Answer the 5 Ws • Number the ideas • Circle ideas • Use index cards
- 20. Draft • Start firstdraft • Use organized ideas • Shape and re- shape • Put it down and come back to it
- 21. Share • Get someadvice. • Provide copies for others to read • Read aloud
- 22. Revise and Edit •Take another look • Make changes to the substance of the writing • Make corrections • Use an editing checklist Add Remove Move Substitute
- 23. Publish • Polish forpresentation • Share with others
- 24. Assess Reflect on whatyou have written!
- 25. A Quick Activityfor Your Student Start with a phrase “made cookies” Add the prompts who, where, when Add descriptors what kind Shelley made cookies in the bakery in the morning. Shelley made oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies in the bakery in the morning. Add more info how Using an old family recipe, Shelley made oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies in the bakery in the morning.
- 26. Using a WritingFrame
- 27. Pre-Writing Topic: Three reasons Ilike or dislike going to the grocery store. Sample Completed Graphic Organizer
- 28. Organizing Place your ideasinto the writing frame. (no complete sentences yet) Sample Completed Frame – Ideas Only
- 29. Drafting Draft It! Use yourideas to write complete sentences in a new frame. Drafts with complete sentences.
- 30. Revise and Edit Reviewthe sentences Decide if revisions are needed Check for errors
- 31. Publish and Assess Writethe final version in paragraph form Reflect on the completed task
- 32. Some Final Thoughts Yourstudent’s writing will improve if you • Assess • Contextualize • Emphasize the process • Help student develop good ideas • Use the frame • Show relevance • Provide writing practice every session
- 33. Preparing Workers for21st Century Employment • Contextualized • Demonstrated gains • Positive reviews • Complete package http://maepd.org/lib- preparingworkers.html
- 34. Preparing Workers for21st Century Employment
- 35. Teaching That MakesSense Strategies Resources Activities Information http://ttms.org/
- 37. More Tutorials andResources Helping Adults Learn to Read, Part 1 • Strategies and resources for alphabetics (phonics) and reading rate and fluency Helping Adults Learn to Read, Part 2 • Strategies and resources to help students build their vocabulary and comprehension skills Numeracy – Helping Students Gain a Strong Foundation
- 38. 38 This project wasdeveloped by National Human Resources Development, Inc. (NHRD) in cooperation with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Workforce Development Agency State of Michigan, Office of Adult Learning and funded through a grant under the Wagner-Peyser Act. For more information visit: http://www.maepd.org