TEACHERS COLLEGE - ADVANCED WRITING INSTITUTE 2011

Weeklong Classes

As Students Become Stronger, We Need a Bigger Repertoire of Strategies to Help Good Writers Become Great (3-8) - Sara Kugler (AM1 session)
Harness the Power of Writing to Learn and Reading-Writing Connections to Engine Cross-Curricular Informational Writing Units (3-8) - Lucy Calkins (AM2 session)

Handouts from Lucy
Qualities of Strong Informational Writing
Mentor Texts
Some Enrichment Lessons and Practices for Reading Like Writers, Writing Like Authors - Mary Ehrenworth (This was left in our class, so I grabbed one!)

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Conferring with a Vision - Carl Anderson

Conferring with Student Writers - Carl Anderson
Top Six Mentor Texts for Narrative Writing - Lea Mercantini
Help Youngsters Become Fearless and Skilled Word Solvers (K-2) - Christine Cook Robson



TEACHERS COLLEGE - WRITING INSTITUTE 2010
Here are my notes from the Writing Institute from Teachers College 2010.

Holly's Notes from TCWP



STAAR
STAAR Personal Narrative & Expository Rubric - 4th Grade


MUSIC FOR WRITING WORKSHOP
I use classical music a lot. However, this year, I introduced big band into the mix. The kids loved it and preferred it to classical. Here are some of the songs I used. Please make a copy for your collection! http://www.hollynowalk.com/music/


WRITING CHECKLISTS
Small Moment Revising and Editing Checklist
Letter to Parents - Helping your child with their writing using an editing checklist
Essay Revising and Editing Checklist


LITERATURE TO USE WITH LESSONS

Books to use with various writing skills





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Writing Workshop Animation
: I created this visual for the opening of PD on the overview of Writing Workshop.. Click *read only* to view. Feel free to use in your PD ;-)


Writing Workshop: Questions to Think About