Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students read, analyze, and respond to literature as a record of life experiences. When teachers eliminate the division between reading lessons and writing lessons, they begin to provide students with an opportunity to make personal meaning out of literature. This workshop emphasizes the use of parallel journaling, which is one way teachers may blend writing with literature in order to engage more effectively students with the text. Participants will experience parallel journaling for themselves, thus learning how to implement the journals in their classrooms.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
The purpose of the workshop is to help teachers learn how to get students writing descriptively through an experience with literature. Also, literary terms can be learned and discussed. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting. The purpose of this presentation is to create experiences that will foster a desire to communicate through written correspondence using works of literature as a point of departure.