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Flint Writing 42x48 Final
Flint Writing 42x48 Final
Flint Writing 42x48 Final
…BUT…
I HATE
TO WRITE!
Writing is a daily part of school… Think beyond the term paper: GO REAL WORLD!
..…but for many students, it is the single-most painful part of their day. Why is it so difficult for so many of
our brightest students to write and like doing it? Where does the resistance to writing come from? ✏Identify & set learning objectives
Student and teacher work together on these
✏Limited productive language skills
Bring parents into the picture
Receptive language comes first, productive language follows
Have writing mentors help
Listening precedes speaking
RESOURCES
Reading precedes writing ✏Make products with purpose
Burkhardt, R.M. (2003). Writing for Real:
✏Asynchrony Write and send email Strategies for Engaging Adolescent Writers.
Stenhouse Publishers.
Reading & writing are often lopsided within a single child Create shopping lists & menus Calkins, L. ED263613 - The Art of Teaching Writing.
When a child is verbally precocious, i.e., early reader, or well-spoken, we Write recipes for others Frank, M. (1995). If You're Trying to Teach Kids
harbor expectations that s/he is ready to write at the same level. Make signs, scrapbooks
How to Write, You've Gotta Have This Book.
Incentive Publications.
This is often not the case, and it is the expectation that creates frustration in Write histories, own family or others’ Hoagies. For the love of words.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/language.htm
teacher and learned helplessness in the child. Find pen pals around the world Jan, L. W. (2008). 3rd ed. Write ways: Modeling
writing forms. Oxford University Press.
✏Undeveloped fine motor skills Classroom or family newsletters Mirriam-Goldberg, C. (1999). Write Where You Are:
Cutting: scissors and knife How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life.
Free Spirit
✏Too tedious ✏Grade with student made rubrics Rinard, B. The reluctant writer. Retrieved 10/25/09
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