Inquiring Writers Want to Know

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Inquiring Writers Want to Know

• Prepared and Presented
• by
• Lisa Frase

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• Read, read, read everythingand see how they do
  it. Just like a carpenter who works as an
  apprentice and studies the master---read!
• William Faulkner

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Inductive Teaching vs. Deductive Teaching

• Inductive Teaching
• The teacher gives the students examples (data
  set), and then the students form the concepts by
  analyzing and categorizing the critical
  attributes. The teacher may gather the
  information (create the data set), or the
  students may gather the information.
• Specific to general.

• Deductive Teaching
• The teacher gives the students general
  information about the concept. Students are given
  positive and negative examples. They must then
  decide if the examples fit with the
  generalization they were given.
• General to Specific.

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Examples of Inductive and Deductive Teaching

• Inductive Teaching
• Concept Similes
• The teacher gives the students a data set of
  similes. They must carefully analyze the similes,
  searching for the critical attributes that they
  have in common. Students would then categorize
  the data set.
• After categories are formed, then students write
  using the categories as a guide.

• Deductive Teaching
• Concept Similes
• The teacher explains to the students that similes
  compare two things using like or as.
• The teacher gives students both positive and
  negative examples. Students must determine which
  examples are similes.
• Students write using similes.

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Inductive Teaching Bruce Joyce and Emily Calhoun

• Most inductive activity is the product of the
  individual mind. We think about data and form
  categories. However, our minds do not exist in a
  social vacuum. The classroom learning environment
  needs to operate such that students learn to
  build and test ideas with others, helping one
  another and testing the minds against the ideas
  of others. Thus, the classroom becomes a place
  where individuals learn to share the products of
  their inquiries and where groups and the whole
  class plan studies together.

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Wondrous Words Katie Wood Ray

• I cant help students write well by myself. I
  need lots of help doing this teaching work, and I
  have found that help on the shelves of my
  library.
• As teachers it seems we have to spend a lot of
  time fighting against what our own educational
  histories have taught us to believe. We were not
  taught to learn to write from writers
• So learning to how to write from writers is a
  fairly new concept in many classrooms. Not
  surprisingly, however, it isnt at all new to
  professional writers. Countless interviews,
  articles, and memoirs by and about famous writers
  attest to the fact that writers learn to write
  from reading the work of other writers.
• So in order to gather a repertoire of craft
  possibilities that will help a writer write well,
  that writer first has to learn how to read
  differently, how to read with a sense of
  possibility

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The 6 Traits of Writing
IDEAS ORGANIZATION VOICE
WORD CHOICE SENTENCE FLUENCY CONVENTIONS
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The Trait of Organization
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Leads

• TSW determine the critical attributes of a well
  written narrative lead.
• TSW categorize the critical attributes of
  narrative leads.
• TSW write using the critical attributes of well
  written narrative leads.

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Lesson Procedure

• Set it up The Importance of Leads
• Read aloud examples of strong narrative leads
  from childrens literature.
• Analyze and chart the attributes noticed by
  students.
• Put the attributes in categories and name the
  categories.

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Lesson Procedure Continued

• Model writing 5-10 narrative leads based on a
  picture prompt, using the categories of critical
  attributes for narrative leads.
• Shared writing of 5-10 leads based on a new
  picture prompt.
• Students write 5-10 leads based on a picture
  prompt.

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Mrs. Frases Leads Picture 1

• Faith was captured by the intrigue of the human
  world.
• Today would be the day that the magic could
  begin.
• Dont worry little friend. I wont harm you.
  said the tiny winged child. We will have lots of
  fun together.
• The rose gave birth to a tiny creature, unseen by
  human eyes.
• Hope peered into her magic pearl and longed to
  join the children playing.

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