Students and parents will leave the session with practical hand-outs, interesting articles and some model essay ideas. Literacy Workshop Learn about the components of the new literacy workshop on the middle school level. Be prepared to read and respond with an emphasis on higher level thinking and active processing. Discover useful and creative ways to bring writing into your family's everyday life. Pencils, pens and paper provided.
Space is limited.
Contemporary Writing Instruction in the Classroom Parents are important partners in helping to shape positive student attitudes about writing. Knowing how to respond to your child's written work can go a long way toward encouraging a life-long and meaningful writing habit. This seminar is designed to brief parents on contemporary developments and trends in writing pedagogy, and provide information about classroom experiences in school today. Most importantly, we will explore why writing instruction should not always be aimed toward a final product, a manuscript or paper. Often, writing process can strengthen students' higher-order thinking skills, create a more inclusive classroom climate, provide opportunities for students to listen to one another in different ways, and help the teacher discover what's going on in students' heads and hearts.