Building a community of writers: Essential practices to increase motivation, stamina, and fluency for all students, King, Summer 2023
| Course Number: |
EDU 5620 C07 |
| Instructor: |
Laura King |
| Location: |
Online synchronous and asynchronous. FIRST virtual intro CLASS via Google meets: (MANDATORY - choose ONE) June 29, 2023, 10:30-12:00 or June 29, 6:30-8:00 pm (if not possible, alternative time can be arranged with instructor in advance of course beginning). |
| Dates and Times: |
June 29 - August 10, 2023 |
| Credits: |
3 credits |
| Tuition: |
$1,195 |
Course Description:
This course focuses on high leverage instructional practices that meet the needs of ALL student writers - so needed in post-covid classrooms. Focus is on improving students’ writing proficiency through (1) responsive daily routines aimed at stamina/fluency, (2) guided practices that address knowledge and skill gaps, with a focus on sentence development, and (3) purposeful activities and assignments designed to motivate! Methods of differentiation will be woven throughout the course.
Audience: General & Special Educators, Interventionists, Specialists & Administrators K-8*
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
- recognize key features of student writing that inform your instruction.
- Describe daily routines that build a community of readers and writers in your classroom/school.
- Recognize components of explicit writing instruction.
- Identify features of sentences and how they convey meaning.
- Describe the writing process, with a focus on planning and revising.
- Identify key design components of project-based writing - its ability to motivate students via purposeful writing, and its use across content areas.
Course Objectives: In response to readings and modules, participants will…
- articulate ways to build a community of writers through daily writing routines. (Letter to families)
- write or revise a lesson plan, making it more explicit and targeted to match learners’ needs.
- Draft a sequencing plan for teaching sentence-building across the year at your grade level.
- Describe writing performance tasks to enhance a book study or current unit/theme (“writing across the curriculum”). Illustrate your current understanding of how to embed explicit skills instruction, work through the writing process, and motivate students with a purposeful task.
- Draft (or revise) an intentional year-long plan for writing instruction for your grade level, incorporating ideas from this course.
Required Readings:
Required text not included in cost of course.
The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades, by Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler. Jossey-Bass, 2017.ISBN-10 : 1119364914. ISBN-13 : 978-1119364917.
For additional course information
Laura King
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Center for Schools Team
(802) 468-1325