WRITING AS LEARNING presented by EVELYN ROTHSTEIN

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WRITING AS LEARNINGpresented byEVELYN
ROTHSTEIN
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Teaching Writing vs. Asking Writing

• Teaching Writing a developmental, organized
  process that involves building student fluency
  plus organizational strategies visualized as
• W F O or
• Writing Fluency plus Organization
• Asking Writing Write about..
• Write a
  story..
• Write an
  essay.

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In Order to Write You Need.

• to know something about what you are writing
  about
• to know something about the genre of your writing
• to know the vocabulary of your genre or topic
• to know who you are writing to
• to know the voice to use

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In Order to Write You Also Need

• A teacher who guides you through the steps of
  writing
• A listener who is gentle and non-judgmental
• An editor who understands what you are trying to
  write and helps you get it right

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LEARNING TO WRITE IS LIKE LEARNING TO PLAY THE
PIANO.UNLESS YOU ARE MOZART, YOU WILL NEED
LESSONS.
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THE PLANNING WHEEL FOR TEACHING WRITING
COMPOSING WITH KEYWORDS
PERSONIFICATIONS INTERACTIONS
QUOTABLE QUOTES
TAXONOMIES
METACOGNITION
DEFINING FORMAT

PREMISES PREMISES,
TOPIC
WHERE IN THE WORLD
MORPHOLOGY, ETYMOLOGY, GRAMMAR
PROFILES FRAMES
REASONS, CAUSES, RESULTS
WHOS WHO
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Taxonomieswords are free!
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Composing with key wordshave words, can write!
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METACOGNITIONKNOW WHAT YOU KNOW!
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DEFINING FORMATWRITE TO A MARTIAN!
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MORPHOLOGY ETYMOLGYEVERY WORD HAS A STORY!
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Sentence Stretchers

• Go to column 4. Label it Animal. Write the name
  of an interesting animal.
• Make the plural that animal.
• Example tiger/tigers wolf wolves

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SENTENCE STRETCHERS

• Column 5 Label the column Verb.
• Write a verb of locomotion (skip, bound,
  race, lumber, drive, pounce, etc.)
• Keep the verb in the base form.

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Sentence Stretchers

• Column 3 Label Adjective
• Write a brilliant adjective, an amazing
  adjective, a delightful adjective, a fierce
  adjective, a chilling adjective, a spectacular
  adjective

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Sentence Stretchers

• Column 2 - Label Determiner
• Put in a determiner.
• There are two types of determiners Definite
  which represents a specific number such as 3, 4,
  22 or
• Indefinite such as many, several, lots of of,
  a herd of, a crowd of, etc.

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Sentence Stretchers

• Column 1 Label When
• Write a phrase that tells when, such as In the
  early morning or When the moon rose.
• Begin with a capital letter.
• Go to column 5. Check your verb agreement.
  Fix it if you need to as in dance to danced.

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SENTENCE STRETCHERS

• Column 6 Label Adverb
• Add an ly adverb. Form an ly adverb by
  adding ly to an existing adjective.
• gentle-gently
• wonderful-wonderfully
• wild-wildly

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SENTENCE STRETCHERS

• Column 7 Label Where as
• in the garden, behind the trees, etc.
• Column 8 Label Punctuation
• Put in a punctuation mark.

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With a limited number of grammatical rules, we
can create an infinite number of
sentences.Adapted from Noam Chomsky
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QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM MEL LEVINE

• Language is the raw material from which vital
  concepts are shaped.
• Students who lack agility with words fall behind
  their wordsmith peer groups.
• Students with a strong morphological sense race
  ahead in amassing vocabulary as they decrypt many
  meanings from the morphemes secluded within
  words.

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FROM MEL LEVINE

• What really differentiates many top students is
  that they know the meanings of the words they
  know better than other kids know the meanings of
  the words they know.
• P. 135
• a