Growing Adolescent Writers

Growing Adolescent Writers!

Professional Development Hours: 6

Workshop Description:

This 1-day workshop that is designed for all teachers – Literacy, Science, Social Studies and grades 3 - 12 – will explore and explain the goals we have for developing proficient adolescent writers. Those goals include being more GENERATIVE, FLUENT, INTENTIONAL, SELF-MONITORING and CRITICAL. It will give teachers a workable understanding of teaching these GOALS for writing successfully in Reading/English/Language Arts as well as content literacy in Science and Social Studies classrooms. Understanding how to teach students to be more generative, fluent, intentional, self-monitoring and critical is a significant addition to the knowledge base of a skilled teacher that enhances both reading and writing. Teachers will leave with an understanding of how to implement more powerful writing strategies that will align with the Arkansas Benchmark exams. Teachers' awareness that students vary the way they write according to their purposes, audience and form is a significant instructional support. Appropriate writing scaffolding on the part of the teacher is a strongly research-based strategy that stimulates growth in writing and reading literary and content text. Implementation of this information will prepare students to be successful with learning and with the Benchmark testing. The workshop will include explanation and modeling lessons on how to grow a writer using these 5 goals.

Workshop Content:

Audience

Purpose

Diction

Exigency

Style

Sentence formation/fluency

Intended Audience:

ALL teachers in grades 3 through 12 – Reading/English/Language Arts, Science, Social Studies.

Presenter:

Ken Stamatis, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Harding University, Director of Graduate Reading Programs