Teaching Students to Write Teacher Workshop
Learn effective strategies and techniques about teaching writing to third through ninth grade students
Teaching writing effectively is a challenge to almost every teacher. The process of getting started, the follow-through from first draft to final product, the consistency to generate interesting and motivating assignments, and the never-ending and thankless job of correcting written work cause many teachers to put writing on the back burner. Regardless of our approach, we feel we are either short-changing the students or are sacrificing all of our week nights and weekends to evaluate papers.
"I teach junior high writing. My eighty students write a 500 to 1000 word paper every two weeks—that's eighteen papers per student, per year. In my years of teaching writing, I have learned a lot about what works and how one can use shortcuts to teach the writing process. In this practical course, I share what I have learned in thirty years of teaching expository, descriptive, narrative, and creative writing. There is no "fluff" or idealistic prose. This course is the nitty-gritty of getting second through twelfth grade students to successfully write multi-paragraph compositions."
—Scott Purdy
What can you expect to learn?
- Teach writing as a multi-paragraph process.
- Present grammar as an essential writing component.
- Reinforce spelling, punctuation, usage, and capitalization rules within student writing.
- Discover how writing is a hierarchy of skills that can be taught at every grade level.
- Correct papers quickly and effectively.
- Avoid the syndrome of multiple rewrites.
- Identify tricks to teaching rules of spelling.
- Provide specific and precise feedback to students.
- Create "linked" assignments that save planning.
- Learn interesting ways to teach grammar.
- Use the computer to correct papers.
- Present lists of rewrite words your students must perfect.
- Learn seven effective ways to create interest.
- Show students effective use of verb tense.
- Create a "goal paper" appropriate to your teaching situation.
- Teach school-wide capitalization rules.
- Examine and analyze samples of student writing.
- Stretch the vocabulary of your students.
- Integrate writing into every subject area.
All participants receive a copy of the book Teaching Students to Write by Scott Purdy.
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