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Quick Write

Quick Write. 1. List things you write just for yourself. 2. List things you write for someone else, but you don't care if there's a mistake. 3. List things you write for someone else, and you care if there's a mistake. The "Write" Audience

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Quick Write

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  1. Quick Write 1. List things you write just for yourself. 2. List things you write for someone else, but you don't care if there's a mistake. 3. List things you write for someone else, and you care if there's a mistake.

  2. The "Write" Audience Audience Appreciation & Awareness in Middle & Secondary Classrooms Mr. Ryan Batsie & Ms. Danielle Valenilla

  3. What do you think? • How do we motivate our students to write? • How do we provide our students with authentic writing experiences? • How do we move away from the "audience of one" (AKA you, the teacher) mentality?

  4. Research • Gallagher (2006) Teaching Adolescent Writers • Atwell (2002) Lessons that change writers • Maxwell, Allyn and Bacon (1996) Writing Across the Curriculum

  5. Our Theory There are three levels of audience that middle and secondary teachers should consider as they plan instruction.

  6. How much should we write? • Level 1 Audience (__% of class writing) • Writing for YOURSELF • Level 2 Audience (__% of class writing) • Writing for ANOTHER • Level 3 Audience (__% of class writing) • Writing for ANYONE

  7. What Level 1 Looks Like • Personal notes • Quick-writes • ALL 1st drafts • Lists of ALL kinds • Brainstorming • Asking Questions • ALL Journal Writing • Doodling

  8. Benefits of Writing for YOURSELF • Creates autonomy for students • Allows them verbal freedom (slang, etc.) • Helps generate ideas & develop fluency • Helps develop a sense of writer's integrity/honesty • No pressure • Self-centered (developmental needs)

  9. What Level 2 Looks Like • 2nd Drafts • Homework • Reaction Papers • Special Occasion Cards • Writing events on a calendar • Personal Letters • Text messages • Tweeting • Facebooking

  10. EXIT SLIPS >>

  11. Benefits of Writing for ANOTHER • Creates accountability for students • Continues to allow them verbal freedom (slang, etc.) • Helps solidify ideas & develop fluency • Helps writer question their sense of writer's integrity/honesty • Low pressure to create meaning for another • Interactive (developmental needs)

  12. What Level 3 Looks Like • Final drafts • Essays • Job Applications • Writing Contests • Letters to the Editor • Submissions for Publication

  13. Benefits of Writing for ANYONE • Creates opportunities for students to engage in authentic audiences • Impresses the importance of standard conventions for meaning • Establishes writer's commitment and stance concerning ideas • Higher pressure to create meaning for a wide array of audiences • Publication (Bragging rights) (developmental needs)

  14. Follow Me: @MsValenilla • Hashtags can teach theme • #realtalk #classroomlessons #teachablemoments • Authentic writing opportunities • Revision • Conveying proper tone • Modeling different sentence structures • Modeling proper grammar

  15. A Current Local Contest

  16. So you're probably wondering... HOW DO I DO THIS IN MY CLASSROOM?!

  17. Quick-Write Make three lists and write as many things as you can think of that apply to each list. • List 1: The Things I Write for Only Me • List 2: The Things I Write for a Few to See • List 3: The Things I Write for a Large Audience to See

  18. The Write Audience in the Classroom • How does this look in a real classroom? • How does a teacher plan for real audiences? • What does a student example look like?

  19. Lead by example

  20. Planning Templates

  21. Planning Templates

  22. Online Learning Environment

  23. Authentic Requirements

  24. Book Review Rubric

  25. Book Review Rubric

  26. Student Example

  27. Student Example • This review is from: Winning Balance: What I've Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams (Hardcover) • When I first saw this book on a shelf at my local library I grasped it and knew I had to get it. Shawn Johnson and other gymnasts have always interested me, never being a gymnast myself it was exhilarating to read this book and live a life I have never experienced. I had never known much about Shawn Johnson before reading this book,I had seen her in commercials but I had never heard her story...

  28. Student feedback

  29. Now it’s your turn… • What is your time frame? • What are you teaching? • What are your opportunities for authentic writing? • How can you target the different audience levels?

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