The presentation enhances higher order thinking skills as participants proceed through the writing experience with a focus on rainbow revision and editing. Using a rainbow rubric, members will assist each other in coming to a refined understanding of revision as an act of reflection and self evaluation. The participants will be encouraged to publish their color poems.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting. Also, participants will learn about research in early childhood development that illustrates how children, at an early age, can grasp the structures of narratives through oral traditions and practices. Participants will learn, as well, to draw on their own knowledge of story grammar to write personal narratives. Participants will engage in such strategies as sequencing with sentence strips and identifying motifs. Students read, comprehend, and respond to a range of materials using a variety of strategies for different purposes.