Practical Takeaways
1. To provide students with an opportunity to see real-world
value in writing, locate applications (career and college) that contain
elements of thoughtfully writing on demand.
2. To mentor texts as models, emphasizing writing is never
finished, model the writing process for the students. Show them the struggles
accomplished writers experience during the writing process and the ways to
improve.
3. To help students see real-world examples of writing, while
improving prior knowledge and background about the world, introduce the Article
of the Week (AoW) task. News stories, essay, editorials, blogs, and speeches to
read then consider the importance of this information to their lives.
4. To expand upon cause and effect relationships, sharpen
their thinking by "A Leads to B". This strategy provides a way
for students to organize their thoughts with connections of events.
5. To move students into analysis and interpretation, utilize
interpretation of charts such as the artist Phillip Niemeyer's chart,
symbolically capturing American life in the first decade of the twenty-first
century.
6.Emphasize the revision process with RADaR:
Replace(words/sentences), Add (new descriptive information), Delete
(unrelated, unnecessary, repetition), and Reorder (for better flow)
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