Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. This presentation will show how content-area teachers can promote writing in their classrooms and how writing fosters an active rather than passive approach to learning. Participants will learn strategies for implementing writing activities, construct lesson plans that include writing in content areas, and develop an awareness of options for incorporating a writing component in content area subjects. Some key issues to be addressed include the utility of learning logs, the practicality of content area writing assignments, and the applicability of a procedure for developing content area writing lessons. Teachers should prepare to be actively engaged in various activities that will enhance their knowledge of writing in the content areas.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a tangible, real experience to children who are having a hard time transferring the words in their minds unto the paper in front of them. This workshop will offer solutions and accommodations to the teacher of frustrated writers. The presenter will also address modifications and accommodations for writing with special needs children. Although the workshop is elementary based, the topic is one that can easily be adapted to middle and high school students as well. Students read, comprehend, and respond to a range of materials using a variety of strategies for different purposes.