Presentations

Thanks for visiting this page. If you’ve attended one of our presentations, then you can find the “handouts” here. (If you haven’t come to one of our presentations, feel free to download the PowerPoint to see what we’ve been talking about.)

RUTH AND STACEY:

‘”I HATE WRITING!!!’: A Discussion About Inspiring Reluctant Writers By Writing Alongside Them.”
Because… Shift Happens! Teaching in the Twenty-First century: NCTE
San Antonio, Texas – November 2008

RUTH:

Beginning Writing Workshop Training (All-Write Consortium)
North Webster, IN 2003 – present

Following are presentations I created for this training.

DAY ONE

Writing Workshop Overview

This is one of the initial presentations in the training.  Shortly after this presentation, participants observe a Writing Workshop to help cement the structure in their minds.

• Writer’s Notebook Introduction

This short presentation gives a glimpse into the kinds of ephemera that can be “caught” in a writer’s notebook.  The first slide was slightly adapted from Stacey’s presentation, Launching Writing Workshop and Writer’s Notebooks, found below.

• Living Like a Writer

If we want our students to be successful writers, then we need to be writers too.  This presentations discusses some of the key aspects of beginning to live like a writer plus creating a community of writers in your classroom.

DAY TWO

• Establishing a Community

The essence of this section of the training is to consider ways we can help students feel like the classroom is a place for a community of writers.  Katie Wood Ray helps us consider the way we use our physical space.  The readings are from her book:  Writing Workshop:  Working Through the Hard Parts and Their All Hard Parts, coauthored with Lester Laminack.

• Getting Started with Focus Lessons

After this brief introduction to focus lessons, we spent time working in grade levels to consider our initial focus lessons. 

All-Write Summer Institute 2008
Shipshewana, IN — June 24, 2008

Embracing Imperfection (Click on link for Power Point.)

Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in all our student writers are not doing.  In this session, we’ll look at ways to find and build on the strengths of student writing.  From classroom structures to conferring tips and a brief look into assessing the imperfection of student writing, this session will offer many practical ideas.

 

Conferring Charts — By using a chart designed to enhance conferring, teachers are able to become more effective.

1. Status of the Class
2. Conferring Record Boxes
3. Conferring Record Columns
4. Stacey’s Conferring Record
5. Individual Conferring Record

Peer Conferring Forms

1. Question Grid
2. Peer Conference + Rubric

Assessment — Rubrics + Writing Analysis

1. General 3 Grade
2. Stacey’s First Published Piece Rubric
3. Writing Anaylsis + Example
4. Primary Writing Analysis

Rigor + Freedom

1. Interactive Process Chart
2. Exit Slip

STACEY:

Breathing New Life Into Writer’s Notebooks (Part of the P.S. 171 Writing Initiative)
P.S. 171 – Professional Development Day
Collaborative Presentation with Lila Jorge and Patricia Krivac
New York, NY – June 2006

Idea Notebook Implementation
P.S. 171 – Professional Development Day
Collaborative Presentation with Lila Jorge and Patricia Krivac
New York, NY – June 2006

Launching Writing Workshop & Writer’s Notebooks
P.S. 171 – Upper Grade Professional Development
New York, NY – September 2006

In Search of Funding: Providing Open Access to Secondary Discourses
Literate Lives: A Human Right: Whole Language Umbrella
Louisville, Kentucky – July 2007

Inspiring Children to Write By Living Like A Writer: Teaching Writing Workshop with Our Notebooks Wide-Open
Rhode Island Writing Project
Providence, RI – Spring 2008

Inspiring Children to Write: Teaching Writing Workshop with Our Notebooks Wide-Open

NEATE Fall 2008 Conference
Nashua, NH – October 2008