What do you think?

• How do we motivate our students to write?

• How do we provide our students with authentic writing experiences?

• How do we move away from the "audience of one" (AKA you, the teacher) mentality?

• Gallagher (2006) Teaching Adolescent Writers

o Atwell (2002) Lessons that change writers

• Maxwell, Allyn and Bacon (1996) Writing Across the Curriculum

Research

The Write Audience in the Classroom

• How does this look in a real classroom?• How does a teacher plan for real

audiences?• What does a student example look like?

Make three lists and write as many things as you can think of that apply to each list.

• List 1: The Things I Write for Only Me

• List 2: The Things I Write for a Few to See

• List 3: The Things I Write for a Large Audience to See

Quick-Write

Lead by example

Current Lesson/Unit

Standard(s) covered

Thought-provoking reading(s)

Meaningful Writing

Aligned Conventions

Authentic Audience

Critical Reading

Reading Literature &

Writing

And Then There Were

None

Mock trial preparations

Quotation marks

Peers as trial participants, teacher as judge, andcommunity

members as jurors

Planning Template

Planning Template

Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri.

Introduce Amazon Book Review

Pass out parent permission letter

Read Amazon Book Reviews

Introduce Book Review Rubric

Outline Book Reviews

Draft Book Reviews

Publish book reviews to our class blog

Planning Templates

Standard Big Question

Meaningful Writing

Aligned Conventions

Mentor Text Authentic Audience

Writing Why do you like or dislike a book?

Amazon Book Review

Spelling Amazon Book Reviews

Amazon website viewers

Writing Medium

Supplies Audience

Amazon Book Review

• Access to Amazon account (parent’s or own)

• Computer with Internet access• Word processing program• Reading book• Amazon alternative template• Parent permission letter

Amazon website viewers

Online Learning Environment

Authentic Requirements

Book Review Rubric

Book Review Rubric

Student Example

Student Example• This review is from: Winning Balance:

What I've Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams (Hardcover)

• When I first saw this book on a shelf at my local library I grasped it and knew I had to get it. Shawn Johnson and other gymnasts have always interested me, never being a gymnast myself it was exhilarating to read this book and live a life I have never experienced. I had never known much about Shawn Johnson before reading this book,I had seen her in commercials but I had never heard her story...

Student feedback

Now it’s your turn…

• What is your time frame?• What are you teaching?• What are your opportunities for

authentic writing?