Discover Writing Press. Teaching certificate and admission to the graduate school. Student Support Services determines eligibility for and authorizes the provision of these services and aids. This course focuses on the critical need to provide students with authentic reasons to read and write and with the skills to do so. The major goal of this course is to invite you as teachers to join or continue as a community of learners who find a multitude of reasons to read and write throughout a lifetime and to bring your students into that community.
Good literature offers readers many opportunities to think and reflect.
These experiences of learning to read like a writer and actively capturing your thoughts on paper during reading or any other experience throughout the day will dramatically change the way you think about teaching reading and writing. To this end, you will explore the foundations and instructional strategies for teaching writing processes to students. Methods and strategies including writers' workshop, mini-lessons, conferencing, editing, and publishing will be examined to help students build writing fluency in both narrative and expository writing forms. The course will also address the integration of writing with reading, listening, and speaking. Describe and implement the components of the writing process.