changing the way we write jennifer weninger mountain creek stem academy
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Changing the Way We Write
Jennifer WeningerMountain Creek STEM Academy
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On a sheet of paper…
• What do your students like about writing? (Yes, reasons exist!)
• What do your students dislike about writing?
• What would your students rather be doing than writing?
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What Students Actually Said…
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Why the 5 Paragraph Essay?
• It’s what we know!• It’s formulaic.• It’s easy.
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Student Opinion?
• It’s boring.• It’s time consuming.• It’s too much writing.• When am I going to use this in life?• Again? Didn’t we just do this?
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It’s Time To Shake It Up!
• Why rely on the same old same old, when there is a whole world of constantly evolving technology?
–Technology is time consuming–We don’t have enough time to master
before teaching–We not only have to teach the concept, but
technology use too.
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Bargain Boxes
• It’s a lot of analyzing, with little work on your part. It’s a bargain if I ever saw one!
• A quick way to have student get all of the basics (plot, characters, figurative language, symbolism, etc) with one activity.
• Student create a box out of paper and each side of the box has an assigned activity.
• Great for differentiation.
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A-B-C Books
• Takes the place of a lengthy literary analysis.• For each letter of the A-B-Cs, students find a
character, object, idea, or symbol from the book to represent that letter.
• Next to the chosen word, they must write a short blurb of what it represents and why it was important to the story.
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Shared Pen
• Great for students that suffer from writer’s block or struggle to start a new paragraph.
• Partners outline their topic together. Then, they take turns writing paragraphs. If a student gets stuck, their partner can assist with guiding the next sentence.
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STOP! COLLABORATE & LISTEN!
• Create a task with another subject area:– Science– History– Technology
• Each teacher gives specific requirements and grades for those requirements.
• RUBRICS, RUBRICS, RUBRICS!!
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Children’s Book
• Great for cross curricular activities.• Use for breaking down advance concepts.• Students take a topic and chunk it into smaller
concepts. They then take these chunks and present them in a manner that younger students will understanding (content will determine audience).
• Makes students responsible for their own learning.
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Comic Books
• Great for students that struggle with writing, especially connecting the writing dots.
• Great for artistic students.• Draw your own or use website:– Bitstrip.com (30 day freebie)– Makebeliefscomix.com (freebie)– Stripgenerator.com (freebie)
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Documentaries
• Ideal for students that lose focus with longer writing pieces.
• Students research a given or selected topic.• They then answer the given aspects of the
topic in multiple short paragraphs.• After putting the information in a logical
order, they prepare their script recording and organize research pictures and videos.
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Your Turn!• In order to show how easy it really is, and
familiarize yourselves with the technology, you are going to create a documentary.
• I promise, it’s not difficult!• In a small group you will comb for phone for
pictures and videos. You will then combine these into a video to inform about your group members. Add vocals to explain the pictures. Your Life Documentary should be about 1 minute long.