Building Writing Fluency through Power Writing and Generative Writing February 16, 2009

1. Building Writing Fluency through Power Writing and Generative Writing February 16, 2009 9:55 – 11:20

2. Power Writing Session Goals By the end of this session you will know : • Two instructional strategies to build writing fluency • How to implement the strategies quickly and improve sentence structure and syntax.

3. Power Writing Session Goals By the end of this session you will know how to: • Assess whether students can produce meaningful units that are grammatically correct. • Implement the strategies across content areas to increase content, language, grammar, and vocabulary knowledge.

4. Power Writing Scaffolded Writing Instruction: Teaching with a Gradual-Release Framework by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

5. Why Teach Power Writing? • build writing fluency • encourage students to get thoughts down on paper quickly • generate self-created material for students to revise • write on demand

6. District Curriculum Maps • Use information and ideas from other subject areas and personal experiences to form and express opinions and judgments • Recognize and use the standard rules of English as appropriate in formal and informal writing. • Construct effective paragraphs and texts • Apply appropriate parts of speech in written composition

7. Iowa Core Curriculum • Uses an effective writing process • Uses writing as a tool for learning • Engages in the information literacy process: accesses, evaluates, and communicates information and ideas • Is able to write on demand

8. Power Writing • Objective: To build writing fluency • Activity: Students participate in quick, daily timed writing practice, which is repeated three times. • Level of Support: Moderate at the beginning working to small group and then independent activities. • Format: Whole class, small group, or individual student.

9. Power Writing Procedures • State a topic related to classroom activities. • Set timer for one minute. • Instruct class to write as much as they can on the topic in one minute. • When the timer rings, students count number of words written and circle any misspelled or grammatical errors.

10. Power Writing Procedures • Repeat these steps two more times. • After three cycles, students graph their best result of the day. • Students write personal goals i.e. By March 15, I would like to write at least 30 words per minute.

11. Power Writing Let’s Try It!

12. Topic One computer

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14. Topic Two technology

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16. Topic Three professional development

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18. Power Writing Student Work Samples Video

19. Power Writing Small Group • Students need to be ready for less teacher support. • Container with topics prepared. • Timer • Easy access to graphs • Student leader to read topic and set timer • Follow up activity (if time permits).

20. Power Writing Extensions • Partners revise power writing. • Select one power write weekly to extend. • Revision for homework • Use as a story or picture book starter.

21. Power Writing Extensions • Students review for key words and create an open-verse poem – “found poem”.

22. Power Write Found Poem Happiness is walking home with my mom. We spend it talking, talking, talking. I see my friends outside. All my sisters and brothers are inside the house. My mom and I are still talking. I’m happy because they care about me. My Mom Walking home Talking, talking, talking Friends outside Talking, talking, talking Sisters and brothers inside Talking, talking, talking They all care about me

23. Power Writing in Your Classroom • Pair Share Activity • Think of how you could implement this into your classroom setting. (How often, how much time needed, preparation, would this work for you?) • Share with 1 -2 people at your table. • Volunteers to share with whole group.

24. Power Writing Questions?

25. Generative Writing Session Goals By the end of this session you will know : • An instructional strategies to build writing fluency • How to implement the strategy quickly to eliminate errors in sentence structure, subject/verb agreement, verb tense, and plurals.

26. Generative Writing Session Goals By the end of this session you will know to : • Assess content, language, grammar, and vocabulary knowledge. • Implement the strategy across content areas to increase content, language, grammar, and vocabulary knowledge.

27. Why Teach Generative Writing? • Build sentence fluency • Build word choice • Deepen understanding of content • Deepen understanding of vocabulary • Use writing as a tool for learning • Write in a variety of genres

28. District Curriculum Maps • Use information and ideas from other subject areas and personal experiences to form and express opinions and judgments • Recognize and use the standard rules of English as appropriate in formal and informal writing. • Construct effective paragraphs and texts • Apply appropriate parts of speech in written composition

29. Iowa Core Curriculum • Adheres to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar, usage, syntax, and style • Uses writing as a tool for learning • Engages in the information literacy process: accesses, evaluates, and communicates information and ideas • Is able to write on demand • Communicates in a variety of genres .

30. Generative Writing • Objective: To compose written messages based on given words. • Activity: Given specific parameters, students use their understanding of syntax and sentence structure to construct meaningful texts. • Level of Support: Moderate at the beginning working to small group and then independent activities. • Format: Whole class, small group, or individual student.

31. Generative Writing Procedures Word Level – Sentence Level • Teacher chooses words to support curriculum. • Students write words and sentences following directions. • Words and sentences vary with teacher chosen objective. • Repeat new directions or extend the writing.

32. Generative Writing • Word Level • Providing a letter to create a word • Sentence Level • Providing a word to be used • Defining the word’s position in the sentence • Specifying the number of words in a sentence • Limiting the number of words in a sentence • Stating the sentence pattern(syntax)

33. Generative Writing • Paragraph Level • Sentence combining • Teach students to combine sentences using conjunctions, phrase modifiers, or compound verbs and subjects.

34. Generative Writing Let’s Try It!

35. Generative Writing • Letter Placing • Generative Sentences • Word Limiting • Sentence Patterning • Parts of Speech • Punctuation • Elements of Style

36. Generative Writing Student Work Samples Video

37. Generative Writing Extensions • Syntax Surgery • Developed by Adrienne Herrel • Students find and correct the grammatical errors in their generative sentences. • Use small group or independently • Write sentence on a strip of paper, cutting apart the words, and reassembling the sentence in the correct order.

38. Word Pyramids • Students expand writing vocabulary. • Students are given a theme or topic and asked to generate a list of related words. • Write words in pyramid style, beginning with a two letter word, and expanding by one additional letter in length until the student cannot generated anymore. • LET’S TRY IT!

39. Generative Writing Extensions • Small Group Explicit Instruction • Use generative sentences in small groups to work on missing skills in writing for your students. • Tape record instructions of generative sentences for students to complete in small group with a leader in charge of the recording. • Revise and expand generative sentences during Writer’s Workshop.

40. Generative Writing in Your Classroom • Pair Share Activity • Think of how you could implement this into your classroom setting. (How often, how much time needed, preparation, would this work for you?) • Share with 1 -2 people at your table. • Volunteers to share with whole group.

41. Generative Writing Questions?