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Motivating Reluctant Writers With Technology

“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.” --Leo Rosten, author. Motivating Reluctant Writers With Technology. Joelle (Joey) Weaver

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Motivating Reluctant Writers With Technology

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  1. “A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.” • --Leo Rosten, author

  2. Motivating Reluctant Writers With Technology Joelle (Joey) Weaver Special Education Teacher HF-L Joelle_weaver@hflcsd.org

  3. Motivating Reluctant Writers Why are they “reluctant”? • Disability – in need of assistance, support Disinterested – in need of motivation, increased interest

  4. Motivating Disabled Writers Supporting and Assisting Students with Technology Word Prediction Example Co-writer/ WordQ Example MS word Speech to Text software (Dragon Naturally Speaking, Natural Reader) Example MS word speech recognition

  5. Motivating Reluctant Writers Supporting and Assisting Students with Technology Inspiration/Kidspiration Intellitools Draftbuilder

  6. Writing Essentials • Have a purpose for writing • Opportunity to work through process from draft to finished product • Audience • Student choice

  7. Purpose • Comics • Storyboarding

  8. Process • DOMinate writing • DUMP • ORGANIZE • MAP

  9. Brainstorming Ideas • The LEGO (or Let-go) exercise • Air-dry playdough

  10. Audience and How to Reach Them • luv U , cant w8t2C U l8r • ROTFL • http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php • http://www.dominounplugged.com/hosting/dominounplugged/home.nsf/rsrc/34705A030F0087C585256D280005D23E/$file/text_messaging_dictionary.pdf

  11. Choice • Recording • Art • Music

  12. Writing SolutionsVideotaped “news segments” • Purpose – information, entertainment • Audience of peers • Writing process from draft to final product over 3 sessions, once per week. • Student choice (within boundaries) of topics of interest • Additional benefits – practice using vocabulary mapped in previous classes, multiple opportunities to practice reading fluency, and practice using “good speech”, posture, enunciation, projection, etc.

  13. Keeping a writer’s notebook • Living a wide-awake life. • Scrapbooking • Chronicling events with family or friends • Photographs & Writing • Blogging • Personal • Professional

  14. Writing SolutionsBring in the Motivation (and other areas) • Purpose –to increase understanding of text (writing for literature response) • Audience – family members, classmates, other teachers • Writing process from draft to final product over 3 sessions, once per week. • Use of “prop” from the book • Text-to-Self Connection

  15. Writing SolutionsPhoto Story 3 • Purpose-a digital form of book reports • Audience-students trying to find a good book to read • Writing process from draft to final product- 2 sessions (used a graphic organizer) • Student choice of opinion, pictures, animation • Additional benefits-visualization, reading fluency, review of literary terms

  16. Writing SolutionsGame Shows • Purpose-review of material, end of unit evaluation (writing for information) • Audience-students • Writing process-at least two sessions • Student choice- pertinent information, type of game to use (Jeopardy or Millionaire for example), question format, visuals, sound clips • Additional benefits-grammar counts/ language use, creativity, practice using power point, review of material

  17. Quarterly Class NewsletterThe Weaver Weekly • Purpose-writing and publishing a newsletter • Audience-parents (sent home and up on website) • Writing process-from brainstorming to final draft and publication • Student choice-write about what you know • Additional benefits-students practice writing in different genres (editorials, advice, horoscopes, car reviews, short stories, book reviews, poetry)

  18. Motivating Writing Opportunitieshttp://www.xtranormal.com/ • Purpose-writing dialogue, curriculum linked writing response • Audience-self, peers, teachers, internet community • Writing process-from brainstorming to final draft and publication • Student choice-choose a character from a book and tell story from his/her point of view • Additional benefits-students practice writing from alternate point of view, create visual to solidify knowledge of events or story line, opportunity to share work, collaborate

  19. Latest updates • Wordle.net to create a “word cloud” of selected text.

  20. Assessment and CBM’s • Excel Charting • Writing CBM’s

  21. Time to Share Show and tell …. What’s working for you in your classroom?

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