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| Explicit Direct Instruction to Teach Writing Workshop |
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The Writing Workshop is an all day (one to two day) staff development in effective
lesson design and delivery that improves student writing at the sentence, paragraph,
and essay level. Instructional leaders must attend to learn what
the teachers are learning and to support effective and ongoing implementation.
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What makes the Explicit Direct Instruction to Teach Writing
Workshop
important?
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Students everywhere continue to struggle in becoming good writers.
This workshop shows teachers how to use well crafted Explicit Direct
Instruction lessons to teach writing in executable steps that produce a
high student success rate.
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The approach aligns with writing strategies and writing applications contained in
state content standards.
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The focus is on producing well organized and developed student essays as opposed to
grammar and punctuation.
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What will the Explicit Direct Instruction to Teach Writing
Workshop
attendees learn?
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The Writing Workshop is an all day (one to two day) staff development in effective
lesson design and delivery that improves student writing at the sentence, paragraph,
and essay level. During the training, teachers develop their own lessons and present
parts of their lessons to the group to practice the techniques they have just been taught.
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The workshop begins with how to teach students sentence structure and paragraph writing.
It continues with teaching essay writing including "select a focus," compare and contrast,
research report, summary, persuasive Essay. The workshop concludes with narrative essays
including plot, characterization, sensory details, setting, and show rather than tell.
The approach is to break writing into executable steps that students can emulate.
This technique is appropriate for elementary through high school.
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| What does the school need to provide? |
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The school must provide a suitable meeting room with a screen and an overhead projector
for the all day staff development.
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