Planning for Proficiency

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Planning for Proficiency

• 4th Grade Teachers
• 1-9-2007

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• Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
• Old adage

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What happens

• When writers arent planning at all, in fact,
  when theyre just drafting and skipping the
  prewriting stage, they write

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• Narratives without details the reader needs and
  with details that dont fit
• Poems, fiction, or narratives with sensory
  details they dont need just because someone in a
  conference told them they needed to develop their
  ideas
• Descriptions which do nothing to move a plot
  along, in fact, which do the opposite
• Transactive pieces which are downloaded data
  dumps instead of pieces focused on one key idea.
• Letters to the reviewer that are lists of
  questions the teacher has thought of instead of
  real reflection on the part of writers.

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Students need

• help to focus their ideas
• Assistance with planning different types of
  pieces before they write
• conference at the prewriting stage, not the final
  revision or editing stages

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The Writers Notebook
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Importance of Planning
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Content Area Poetry Plan
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Transactive Plans and Cheat Sheet
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Reflective Piece and Plan
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Measure twice cut once -Carpenters rule