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Puget Sound Writing ProjectUniversity of Washington

Teachers are the best teachers

of teachers.

Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

Student write more when their teachers write, too.

Low-stakes vs high stakes

What are the characteristics of high-stakes writing?

How about low stakes writing?

What is an essay, anyway?

An analytical or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view

Something resembling a composition (photographic)

Why write?

Well, you can put more things on paper then what you can say out loud. Even to a friend. I’ve said more things to a piece of paper than I would ever say to my friend.

Eighth grade student

The Journal Book

Free Writing

The Power of Listing

The List of Lists

A sixth grader’s list

What grade is this student in?

Janine’s Double List

Free write after List #2

Clustering/ Webbing

Another idea

Starting idea

Related idea

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Another idea

Me-Maps

Another Me-map

One response to “space”

Another view of sapce

Another form of Me-map

Writing to an Audience

• Start small – have the audience be one person.

• Dialogue Journals

• Buddy Journals

Dialogue Journal

Buddy Journal

Gina and Stephanie

Close Observation

From a fifth grader’s science journal

Show, Don’t Tell

Taxonomy

• Classification, especially of plants and animals

• An orderly way to concurrently collect and classify information

Use your senses

I seeI hearI smellI touchI taste

And don’t forget

I think I feel

I rememberI know

Revising – WOWS and WONDERS

Share work with a writers group or a partner:

WOW

-- I like, I think, I felt

WONDER

-- I wonder

Recursive Revision

Revision means --

To see again.

Recursive Revision

• Revision tricks -- let the piece rest while you rest -- check for “was, is, are, were, etc.”

• Join, or create, a writers group

• Write a one-sentence premise

Editing

• Editing can mean looking for usage and punctuation errors.

• Editing can mean reading it with your specific audience in mind. This can lead back to revision.

• State the “premise” in one sentence• Read it aloud• Read it backwards.

Publicare – make it public

• Anthology• Read around• Authors chair• Authors café• Send it to an agent or publciation• Other?

Celebrate