Demonstration Anthology

Demonstration Anthology

Eastern Illinois Writing Project 2008-2010 Demonstration Anthology Table of Contents Connie Almy: Writing Process: Emphasis on Revision .................................................................. 6 Robin Augsburg: Teaching Descriptive Writing with Cookies, Crazies, and CSIs ............................. 8 Cathy Ball - Show Me Don’t Tell Me .............................................................................................. 13 Angel Baumann - Around the World ............................................................................................. 15 Keri Buscher - Duck! Rabbit! ....................................................................................................... 22 Al Church - Creating Culture .......................................................................................................... 30 Kathy Decker - Using Point-of-View To Evoke Empathy From an Audience ................................. 34 Renee Felkamp - Teaching Pre-Writing Skills to Young Children .................................................. 37 Kelly Hardiek - Awesome Adjectives and Detailed Descriptions! ................................................. 41 Tina Hausmann - Writing with Your Senses .................................................................................. 43 Christy Hild – Nicenet .................................................................................................................... 48 Janet Kracht - Flash Films .............................................................................................................. 54 Heather Lindenmeyer - Making Your Writing (and Your Readers) Smile through Voice .............. 56 Vicki Martinez - Mental Snapshots ................................................................................................ 59 Monica Moreschi - Using Voice in Nursery Rhymes ...................................................................... 63 Margo Riker - Kindergarten Literacy Centers ................................................................................ 66 Josh Robison – Revision Techniques ............................................................................................. 80 Lee Roll – Who Am I? Create A New Adjective to Describe Yourself ............................................. 84 Kristin Runyon - Text Reformulation ............................................................................................. 90 Rachel Stuart - “Using Dialogue to Improve Writing” ................................................................. 101 Stephanie Gobczynski Uebinger - Lists of 10:.............................................................................. 105 Beginning Classroom Writing Demonstration ............................................................................. 105 Dannette Williamson - From Real Books to Facebook ................................................................ 108 Alison Yantis - Teaching the Ideas Trait Using Picture Books ...................................................... 110 Jennifer Young - WTT (What the THESIS) .................................................................................... 112 Content Activities ........................................................................................................................ 116 Creative Writing........................................................................................................................... 117 Mary Ellen O’Brien-Teaching Poetry ........................................................................................... 117 Meggyn Sytar - Candy Bar Wrap-Attack ...................................................................................... 118 Mary Williams - Who wants to be a Songwriter? (Lyric poetry) ................................................. 122 Ruth-Anne Yang - Improving Your Writing With Plot Structure .................................................. 126 Food & Nutrition.......................................................................................................................... 128 Donna Denault - Using Recipes ................................................................................................... 128 Math ............................................................................................................................................ 133 Patty Hawkins - Exploring Math Concepts through Writing ....................................................... 133 Science ......................................................................................................................................... 139 Sarah Pratte - The Scientific Method, Mythbusting and Beyond ................................................ 139 Special Needs Activity ................................................................................................................. 149 Cassie McMillan - Title: Writing Through the Use of Boggle ....................................................... 149 Lessons ........................................................................................................................................ 151 Creative Writing........................................................................................................................... 152 Amber Laquet - Creative Writing through Mysteries: ................................................................. 152 English.......................................................................................................................................... 165 Janet Kracht - “In the News” ....................................................................................................... 165 Rebecca Miller - MSNBC Week in Pictures .................................................................................. 181 Patti Murphy - We’re Off to See the Wizard ............................................................................... 187 Sarah Wendt - Third Grade Writing Program .............................................................................. 198 Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................................. 206 Angel Baumann - Technology Grant Proposal ............................................................................. 207 Rachel Stuart – Letter to Parents ................................................................................................ 212 Rachel Stuart - Writing Project Summer Chronology .................................................................. 213 Creative Writings ......................................................................................................................... 217 Sue Fuller - The Canvas ................................................................................................................ 218 Patty Hawkins - Changin’ Tides ................................................................................................... 219 Christy Hild - TJ MAXX: There is a strategy. ................................................................................. 221 Vicki S. Martinez - Bottled Pop, Bottled Water, Bottled Groundhog? ........................................ 227 Julie McGowan - Walnut Point .................................................................................................... 229 Heather Moore-Hinton - How Shelbi Nicole Hinton Began ........................................................ 231 Monica Moreschi - Vito ............................................................................................................... 235 Vicki Pierce - Part of A Storyteller’s Story ................................................................................... 237 Josh Robison - “Theme Meals on the Way Out?” ....................................................................... 239 Lee Roll - Memoir Piece ............................................................................................................... 241 Rebekah K. Volk - Thirsting Righteousness .................................................................................. 247 Rebekah K. Volk - Mom and Dad ................................................................................................ 248 To go to a specific piece, hold down the ctrl button and left-click the item Connie Almy: Writing Process: Emphasis on Revision 1. Content The activity introduces narrative writing in a junior high resource room. I present the writing process as a thinking activity that requires constant self-monitoring, 2. Objective and Rationale: After completing the activity, students will demonstrate understanding of the process by completing a narrative essay. The complete writing process is considered a best practice in an effective writing program according to Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde. Illinois State Learning Standards, goal three is ―Write to communicate for a variety of purposes.‖ In the middle school, students should be able to ―Write compositions that contain complete sentences and effective paragraphs using English conventions 3.A.3., ―Produce documents that convey a clear understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and display focus, organization, elaboration and coherence 3.B.3a, ―Compose narrative, informative and persuasive writings for a specified audience.‖ 3.C.3a The writing process encompasses all these aspects of state goal three. 3. Materials: For the activity, participants will need handouts provided,

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