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Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington

Discover the power of teacher-led writing in enhancing student writing skills. Explore high-stakes vs. low-stakes writing, essay writing, and engaging writing techniques like free writing, clustering, and Me-Maps. Learn about techniques such as dialogue journals, close observation, and revision strategies, including recursive revision and editing.

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Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington

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  1. Puget Sound Writing ProjectUniversity of Washington Teachers who write make the best teachers ofwriting. Teachers are the best teachers of teachers.

  2. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

  3. Student write more when their teachers write, too.

  4. Low-stakes vs high stakes What are the characteristics of high-stakes writing? How about low stakes writing?

  5. 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)

  6. 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

  7. Free Writing

  8. The Power of Listing

  9. The List of Lists

  10. A sixth grader’s list

  11. What grade is this student in?

  12. Janine’s Double List

  13. Free write after List #2

  14. Clustering/ Webbing Related idea Related idea Related idea Another idea Starting idea Related idea Related idea Another idea

  15. Me-Maps

  16. Another Me-map

  17. One response to “space”

  18. Another view of sapce

  19. Another form of Me-map

  20. Writing to an Audience • Start small – have the audience be one person. • Dialogue Journals • Buddy Journals

  21. Dialogue Journal

  22. Buddy Journal

  23. Gina and Stephanie

  24. Close Observation

  25. From a fifth grader’s science journal

  26. Show, Don’t Tell

  27. Taxonomy • Classification, especially of plants and animals • An orderly way to concurrently collect and classify information

  28. Use your senses I see I hear I smell I touch I taste

  29. And don’t forget I think I feel I remember I know

  30. Revising – WOWS and WONDERS Share work with a writers group or a partner: WOW -- I like, I think, I felt WONDER -- I wonder

  31. Recursive Revision Revision means -- To see again.

  32. 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

  33. 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.

  34. Publicare – make it public • Anthology • Read around • Authors chair • Authors café • Send it to an agent or publciation • Other?

  35. Celebrate

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