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Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

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Puget Sound Writing ProjectUniversity of Washington

Teachers are the best teachers

of teachers.

Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

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Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

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Student write more when their teachers write, too.

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Low-stakes vs high stakes

What are the characteristics of high-stakes writing?

How about low stakes writing?

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What is an essay, anyway?

An analytical or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view

Something resembling a composition (photographic)

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Why write?

Well, you can put more things on paper then what you can say out loud. Even to a friend. I’ve said more things to a piece of paper than I would ever say to my friend.

Eighth grade student

The Journal Book

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Free Writing

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The Power of Listing

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The List of Lists

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A sixth grader’s list

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What grade is this student in?

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Janine’s Double List

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Free write after List #2

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Clustering/ Webbing

Another idea

Starting idea

Related idea

Related idea

Related ideaRelated

idea

Related idea

Another idea

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Me-Maps

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Another Me-map

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One response to “space”

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Another view of sapce

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Another form of Me-map

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Writing to an Audience

• Start small – have the audience be one person.

• Dialogue Journals

• Buddy Journals

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Dialogue Journal

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Buddy Journal

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Gina and Stephanie

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Close Observation

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From a fifth grader’s science journal

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Show, Don’t Tell

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Taxonomy

• Classification, especially of plants and animals

• An orderly way to concurrently collect and classify information

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Use your senses

I seeI hearI smellI touchI taste

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And don’t forget

I think I feel

I rememberI know

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Revising – WOWS and WONDERS

Share work with a writers group or a partner:

WOW

-- I like, I think, I felt

WONDER

-- I wonder

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Recursive Revision

Revision means --

To see again.

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Recursive Revision

• Revision tricks -- let the piece rest while you rest -- check for “was, is, are, were, etc.”

• Join, or create, a writers group

• Write a one-sentence premise

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Editing

• Editing can mean looking for usage and punctuation errors.

• Editing can mean reading it with your specific audience in mind. This can lead back to revision.

• State the “premise” in one sentence• Read it aloud• Read it backwards.

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Publicare – make it public

• Anthology• Read around• Authors chair• Authors café• Send it to an agent or publciation• Other?

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Celebrate