Writing
Experience in Teaching Reading
(10 points)

Writing

Turn in a lesson plan in the following format:

• Your name
• Grade level taught
• List of any books or text used as a writing prompt
• Step-by-step of how you put the lesson together - you must identify each phase of the writing process.  It is very likely that you will NOT be able to take a piece of writing all the way from first draft through publishing, but you must include those phases in your lesson plan for this assignment. 
• Include a copy of a student's writing sample (with student's permission - oral permission is fine)
• How learning was assessed (a rubric or scoring guide for measuring proficiency)
• One paragraph reflection of how you thought the experience went

1.  Use the Writing Process as outlined in the following WebQuest to perform a writing experience with students. 
The P.O.W.E.R.S. of Writing:A Student's Guide to the Writing Process

OR

2.  Use the writing process as outlined in: 

If You're Trying to Teach Kids How to Write, You'Ve Gotta Have This Book
by Marjorie Frank, Judy Howard (Illustrator), Kathleen Bullock (Illustrator)Paperback - 255 pages Revised edition (March 1995) Incentive Pubns; ISBN: 0865303177 There are also multitudes of ideas for writing experiences in this book!

3. A writing workshop is available here:  http://writingworkshop.edtec.unsw.edu.au/index.html

Other useful resources for writing:

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/writing2.html

Careful about how you use "prompts," but this is a good page:  http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html 

Hodgepodge of writing resources:  http://www.pampetty.com/cwonline.htm 

Some ideas for using literature as a springboard for writing:  http://www.pampetty.com/cwlitbased.htm 

My "writing lecture": http://www.pampetty.com/writing.htm

Implementing the Writing Process:  http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/fiss/newpage1.htm

You have GOT to see this page:  http://www.dltk-cards.com/calendar/ ... you can design your own bookmarks, WRITING PAPERS, etc.  Too cool!!

New Beginnings: Writing with Fluency: http://college.hmco.com/devenglish/fitton_warner/beginnings_new/1e/instructors/suggestions.html

Poetry:  http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/spotlight.htm

REMEMBER:  "Writing" is NOT just "story writing!"

  What "writing" is NOT:

• copying print from another source (from the board, from a handout, etc.) = copying is not writing
• filling-in-the-blanks on some sort of handout
• drawing pictures ONLY (exceptions based on developmental levels of Kindergarten students or students who are not typical learners)

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