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Writing Workshop & Language E xperience Approach (LEA)

Writing Workshop & Language E xperience Approach (LEA) . Writing Skills for Students Facilitator: Marie S. Bollers Foundations English Faculty. What are some ways to develop collaborative and independent writers?. Best practices. Research-based approaches: Vocabulary development and EAL’s

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Writing Workshop & Language E xperience Approach (LEA)

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  1. Writing Workshop & Language Experience Approach (LEA) Writing Skills for Students Facilitator: Marie S. Bollers Foundations English Faculty

  2. What are some ways to develop collaborative and independent writers? • Best practices Research-based approaches: • Vocabulary development and EAL’s • Writers’ Workshop & LEA • LBD and performance- or project-based learning

  3. Dependence to Independence

  4. From a socio-linguistic perspective: Language serves two main purposes in any community.

  5. The Power of Language • Language as “communicator” – from this perspective any language is “legitimate” if the parties can understand each other.

  6. How would our students’ communications score if assessed with the HCT writing bands?

  7. The Language of Power • Language as “social marker” – from this perspective language is a “gate” that allows others in or shuts others out of “the group”.

  8. Community is the foundation of high student achievement.

  9. Ground Rules for Group Work

  10. If errors are a sign of growth, then students must have a safe place to make mistakes. Safe Places

  11. My Ground Rules In order for everyone to get the most out of the workshop, there are some ground rules to help us create a positive learning environment. • All team members will participate in the activities and do their best to complete any group and individual tasks assigned. • All team members will treat each other with kindness, justice, and respect.

  12. Types of Groups Whole class Small, mixed ability Random teacher selected Random student selected Leveled

  13. Writing is the high maintenance component of literacy. It needs: • Time– “The Block” = 90 minutes of writing workshop for practice. • Care– Feedback that is timely and uses student friendly rubrics. • Attention – public sharing (audience) helps elevate the level of performance Weekly Writing Workshop

  14. Types of Tasks Four Learning Stations/Centers • Guided Writing/Language Experience Approach • Vocabulary/Reading • Listening/Dictation • My Grammar Lab Elementary (MGLE)

  15. LBD Guided Writing and the modified Language Experience Approach (LEA) with ELL’s

  16. Scaffolding

  17. My organizationsupports my ideas while my mechanics make them clear. Five focus areas for students: • Ideas • Support • Organization • Clarity • Mechanics

  18. sharing

  19. How To Have A Positive Attitude My Story : When I was 10 years old, my father taught me how to pray. At first , I was very lazy. I did not want to wake up and pray. One day my mother told me a story about Muslim people who didn't pray and what will happen to them. She also told me what happens to people who pray. I think positive to pray more often.

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