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Content Writing: utilizing a structured activity

Presentation description:
Explore an easy-to-grade pre-writing strategy that can help students focus on details and organize their thoughts. Participate in a hands-on activity that will help you understand how the pre-writing process can enhance your own curriculum. Brainstorm ideas for utilizing a structured activity in your classroom.

Outline:
(5) Introductions
(5) Why write outside the English classroom?
- helps students put ideas in a different context
- practice for CSAP
- connections to pre-writing and other pre-activity cognitive activities
(5) What does the teacher need to know?
- Pick your battles! Don’t try to do everything
- This strategy will help focus on the details and;
- focus on organization of ideas
(7) Outline of the research project.
(20) Do the hands-on critical analysis activity
- focus on the details (10)
- focus on the organization (10)
(7) Review the concepts of detail & organization – debrief on activity
(10) Brainstorm how this might work in other classrooms – determine the specific skills on which you want to work, i.e. I worked on capturing details and organizing ideas into an essay format
(*) If time allows – design an activity that will work for you