Eight Writing Assignments from Start to Finish Seminar
Enhance your approach to teaching writing with specific writing assignments and examples
Many participants in the Teaching Students to Write seminar comment that they want more—more information, more specifics, more sample assignments, and more fundamentals of how the writing process unfolds from day to day.
This teacher workshop focuses on the state writing standards, which include the narrative, autobiography, analysis of literature, research report, persuasive essay, business letter, descriptive essay, and step-by-step process. Eight Writing Assignments from Start to Finish takes the structured approach of Teaching Students to Write and shares the qualities of what opening, body, and closing paragraphs might look like within each of the genres listed above. You simply can't get more specific than what you will learn in this course.
What can you expect to learn?
- Present writing assignments clearly by identifying the component parts of each paragraph.
- Develop rubrics appropriate for scoring writing samples.
- Write a sample opening and closing paragraph for each assignment type.
- Learn to teach the specifics of writing, enabling students to easily respond to district and standardized testing prompts.
- Create prompts appropriate to your grade level and student ability.
- Motivate all students to write to their potential.
- Integrate curriculum so that students are not just "writing to write" but, rather, writing to a purpose.
- Identify the differences and commonalities of various genre.
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