Writing An Essential Skill

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Welcome!
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Getting Started

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Welcome and Thanks in Advance

So YouveDecided to

Become a

Literacy Volunteer


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Helping Adults Become Better Writers

WritingAnEssential Skill

for Life


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Helping Adults Become Better Writers

Write to be understood, speak to be

heard, read to grow...Lawrence Clark Powell

American Librarian, writer, and critic, 1906-2001


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Time to Reflect

What didyou write

today?


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Teaching Writing

Beliefs aboutthe Teaching

of Writing

Everyone has the capacity to write, writing can

be taught, and teachers can help students

become better writers.

People learn to write by writing.

Writing is a process.

Writing grows out of many different purposes.

Conventions of finished and edited texts are

important to readers and therefore to writers.

Writing and reading are related.
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What You Will Learn

Assess attitude and

current writing skills

Review writing process

Practice the process Explore activities


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Getting Started

Attitude makes a

difference!

Attitude in Writing Survey
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Assessing Current Writing Skills

Explain purpose for

writing sample

Provide a topic

Have student writeone or two paragraphs

Observe the student

as he/she writes

Review the writing

sample

Build a plan


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Review and Plan

Review the writing

sample

Review your notes

Build a plan


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Review and Plan

Review the writing

sample

Review your notes

Build a plan


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The Challenge!

Ask me to tell you

about the topic, and

I can.

Ask me to write

about the topic, andI struggle.


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Making Connections

Contextualize

Show how it will

be used

Use authenticmaterials

Preparing Workers
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The importance of written communication skills at

work cannot be emphasized enough. Misspelled words,

improper sentence structure, or inability to convey

thoughts and ideas clearly, reflects right back to the

writer, and leaves an unfavorable impression on co-

workers, customers, and management, and could

possibly prevent further success on the job.

Laura Mitchell, Human Resources Manager

Wayne Wire Cloth Products, Inc., Traverse City, MI (2009)


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The Writing Process

Prewrite/Plan

OrganizeDraft

Share

Publish

Revise/Edit

Assess/Reflect


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Prewrite/Plan

Journal

Brainstorm

Use an graphic organizer


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Organize

Create an outline

Answer the 5 Ws

Number the ideas

Circle ideas

Use index cards


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Draft

Start first draft

Use organized

ideas

Shape and re-

shape

Put it down and

come back to it


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Share

Get some advice.

Provide copies forothers to read

Read aloud


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Revise and Edit

Take another look

Make changes to the substance of the writing

Make corrections

Use an editing checklist

Add

Remove

MoveSubstitute


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Publish

Polish for presentation

Share with others


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Assess

Reflect on what youhave written!


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A Quick Activity for Your Student

Start with a phrase made cookies

Add the promptswho, where, when

Add descriptors

what k ind

Shelley made cookies in the

bakery in the morning.

Shelley made oatmeal and

chocolate chip cookies in the


Add more info

how

Using an old family recipe,

Shelley made oatmeal and

chocolate chip cookies in the



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Using a Writing Frame
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Pre-Writing

Topic:

Three reasons I like ordislike going

to the grocery store.

Sample Completed Graphic

Organizer
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Organizing

Place your ideas into

the writing frame.

(no completesentences yet)

Sample Completed

FrameIdeas Only
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Drafting

Draft It!

Use your ideas to

write completesentences in a new

frame.

Drafts with complete

sentences.
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Revise and Edit

Review the

sentences

Decide if

revisions are

needed

Check for errors
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Publish and Assess

Write the final

version in

paragraph form

Reflect on the

completed task


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Some Final Thoughts

Your students writing will improve if you

Assess

Contextualize

Emphasize the process

Help student develop good ideas

Use the frame

Show relevance

Provide writing practice every session


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Preparing Workers for 21stCentury Employment

Contextualized

Demonstrated gains

Positive reviews

Complete package

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Preparing Workers for 21stCentury Employment


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Teaching That Makes Sense

Strategies

Resources

Activities

Information

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More Tutorials and Resources

Helping Adults Learn to Read, Part 1

Strategies and resources for alphabetics

(phonics) and reading rate and fluency

Helping Adults Learn to Read, Part 2

Strategies and resources to help students build

their vocabulary and comprehension skills

Numeracy Helping Students Gain a Strong

Foundation


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This project was developed by

National Human Resources Development, Inc.

(NHRD) in cooperation with the

Michigan Economic Development Corporation,Workforce Development Agency State of Michigan,

Office of Adult Learning

and funded through a grant under

the Wagner-Peyser Act.

For more information visit:

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