supportingwriters

=Supporting Writers=

Welcome Starpoint, Depew, Lockport, Cheektowaga, Wellsville, and Amherst teachers. Below, you will find the resources shared during our conversations throughout the winter of 2010-2011. English Language Arts teachers will find resources relevant to writing instruction in their classrooms just below this introductory paragraph. Content area teachers, please scroll down further to find materials and links that may be meaningful for you. Please consider joining this space, sharing your own work, and starting a conversation in the Discussion space above. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact Angela Stockman at stockmanangela@gmail.com. Many thanks to the fellows of the WNY Young Writers Studio and [|Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change], who help me learn so that I am better able to help you. See you soon!

SUPPORTING WRITERS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOMS
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and [|Examples]

A blog post:[| Ideas Inspire Pre-writing Inspires Ideas] [|Resources at Writing Fix] Exploring the Estate Brainstorming and Looping and Zooming Activity: Ideas at Play Centers:, , , , Going Deeper With Idea Development:[| Small Moment Story Video] and the Draw, Label, Caption Strategy (included in this [|wonderful download] by [|Steve Peha])
 * Prewriting and Generating Ideas:**

A blog post: [|Drafting--Giving Voice and Shape to Our Ideas] [|Resources at Writing Fix] and based upon[| this lesson at Writing Fix]
 * Drafting and Organization:**

[|Resources at Writing Fix] ,, and
 * Drafting and Development of Voice:**

[|Resources at Writing Fix]
 * Drafting and Word Choice:**

[|Resources at Writing Fix]
 * Drafting and Sentence Fluency:**

A blog post: [|Introducing Young Writers to the Peer Review Process]
 * Peer Review**

[|Resources at Writing Fix] [|Differentiating the Editing Process], ,
 * Editing and Conventions**:

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SUPPORTING WRITING IN CONTENT AREA CLASSROOMS
Finally, these sites and resources may also be of use to you or your colleagues as you learn together this year. If I can help you more, please let me know!
 * The West Virginia Department of Education provides basic explanations and templates for supporting [|writing in all content areas]. Introductorylevel strategies include:
 * [|Journals]
 * [|Learning Logs]
 * [|RAFT]
 * [|KWL]
 * [|GIST Statements]
 * [|List, Group, Label Vocabulary Activities]
 * [|Using a Variety of Graphic Organizers to Capture Thinking]
 * [|Five Sense Activities (scroll down)]
 * [|Writing Fix]has become a valuable tool for many ELA teachers, but did you know they provide a great deal of writing instruction support to content area teachers as well?
 * [|More on RAFT Assignments]
 * [|History Fix>>]
 * [|Science Fix]
 * [|Number Fix]
 * ELA teachers have also incorporated many of [|Steve Peha's]writing strategies within their instruction. Recently, Steve added a number of new resources to his site specifically for content area teachers who are beginning to support writing. His comprehensive guides include directions, templates, and samples that you may download for free (see his left sidebar) and use with your students.
 * Learning Patterns is a fantastic manual of strategies and resources ready for classroom use.
 * The Writing Teacher's Strategy Guide also provides support for teachers of every content area.
 * Learning Across the Curriculum is a ready-to-use tool as well.
 * Eager to learn from practicing content area teachers? You might be interested in some of these videos:
 * [|Integrating Reading and Writing in the Science Classroom]
 * [|Writing for Understanding in Social Studies]
 * [|Claymation Across the Curriculum]
 * [|One Teacher's Google Search for Writing in Math]
 * Those interested in learning more about the 6+1 Traits can find a number of resources here. The second page of that document provides a "clickable" list of web resources as well. In addition:
 * See how the Traits can be translated for use in Math [|right here.]
 * Learn about the influence of Traits-based instruction on performance [|here.]
 * Using rubrics and assessment criteria as tools to enrich instruction and revision helps writers substantially. Read about this [|here.]
 * [|The Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and English Language Arts provides numerous resources and a rich library of information online] for content area teachers. [|This document includes a wide variety of strategies, templates, and examples of helpful writing strategies.]
 * [|Corbett Harrison's piece on the integration of writing and art is interesting], and I've used his stick-figure strategy to enhance note-taking with success in different content area classrooms.
 * The Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking provides resources for collaborative learning, writing to read, and informal writing [|here.]

Interested in learning how to blog, improving the blog you have, or inviting your students to learn how? [|Join the WNY Young Writers' Studio Blogging Bootcamp--it's free and you can participate anytime.]
 * Additional Resources and Invitations:**

Looking for more information about other topics relevant to writing instruction or other best practices? You can access my "digital file cabinet" right here.