QuestionsNWP Writing Strand at NCTE
The NWP Annual Meeting is held in conjunction with NCTE's Annual Convention, which features a writing strand—Writing and Reading in the Content Areas—offered by NWP. The strand will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. We encourage you to register for the NCTE Convention and attend the NWP Writing Strand.
: Literacy Between the Lines: Using Inquiry to Teach Writing and Reading
8:00am - 9:15am Marriott, 4th Floor, Franklin Room 4
In the foreword to The Inner World of the Immigrant Child, José Martí is quoted as saying, “To learn to read is to learn to walk. To learn to write is to learn to rise.” What power will children have when they blend the two? In this interactive demonstration we will share some of the successes as well as challenges we have encountered in our elementary and middle school classrooms with Katie Wood Ray’s Inquiry approach, our work in the National Writing Project, and protocols for looking at student work.
Presenters: Judy Jester, Brenda Krupp, Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project
Chair: Theresa Hines, Philadelphia Writing Project
Recorder: Leslie Morris, Philadelphia Writing Project
Judy Jester Durante, Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project
Brenda Krupp, Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project
: Assigning and Assessing Multimedia Writing
9:30am - 10:45am Marriott, 4th Floor, Franklin Room 4
How can we responsibly assign multimedia writing projects when state and national standards favor the five-paragraph theme? And what criteria can we use to assess this new writing in our own classrooms? This workshop will offer two models of multimedia projects, one a sixth grade digital picture book project and one a high school "This I Believe" podcast project. The presenters will focus on the ways in which they have assigned and scaffolded their students' work in multimedia, the criteria they have used in assessing these multimedia projects, and the ways in which they have aligned the projects with state and national testing programs. Participants will then collaborate to develop assessment criteria for another multimedia text.
Presenters: Dawn Reed, Red Cedar Writing Project; Kevin Hodgson, Charles Moran, Anne Herrington, Western Massachusetts Writing Project
Chair: Diane Waff, Philadelphia Writing Project
Recorder: Cozette Ferron, Philadelphia Writing Project
Anne Herrington, Western Massachusetts Writing Project
Kevin Hodgson, Western Massachusetts Writing Project
Charlie Moran, Western Massachusetts Writing Project
Dawn Reed, Red Cedar Writing Project
: Writing to Support Reading in the Content Areas: Traditional and Nontraditional Texts
1:15pm - 2:30pm Marriott, 4th Floor, Franklin Room 4
Reading, writing, and thinking skills are too often taught in isolation from content. This interactive session will take participants through the process of using concepts from content areas to plan and produce original print and nonprint texts. This successful practice engages students in the reading and writing process and in a content area experience. The session includes student examples, guided process, and materials to take back to classrooms.
Presenters: Dick Heyler, Nanci Werner-Burke, Endless Mountains Writing Project
Chair: Ted Domers, Philadelphia Writing Project
Recorder: Dina Pierce, Philadelphia Writing Project
Dick Heyler, Endless Mountains Writing Project
Nanci Werner-Burke, Endless Mountains Writing Project
: Establishing an Online Learning Portfolio (for Free)
2:45pm - 4:00pm Marriott, 4th Floor, Franklin Room 4
There are a number of free online tools that are useful for teachers who would like to incorporate reading and writing in the content areas. Teachers across the curriculum can use Google tools like Reader, News, and Docs to help students document their learning through their online digital work. See how students have used these tools to participate in projects like Writing Our Future: Letters to the Next President and to publish compelling multimodal compositions on their youthvoices.net blogs. Participants will also learn ways to incorporate other Google tools like Presentation, Forms, Books, and Lit Trips in the classroom.
Presenter: Chris Sloan, Wasatch Range Writing Project
Chair: Atuwfa Muhammad, Philadelphia Writing Project
Recorder: Anthony Edmond-Pinckney, Philadelphia Writing Project
Chris Sloan, Wasatch Range Writing Project
: Integrating Writing with Reading to Make Meaning of Fiction and Nonfiction Text
4:15pm - 5:30pm Marriott, 4th Floor, Franklin Room 4
In this interactive workshop participants will explore promising hands-on literacy practices for strengthening student writing when integrated with the reading of fiction and nonfiction text. Facilitators will share several approaches to creating successful reading and writing experiences that support students’ ability to use writing for meaning making with social studies and science texts.
Presenters: Mattie Davis, Amelia Coleman-Brown, Philadelphia Writing Project
Chair: Nicole Heyward, Philadelphia Writing Project
Recorder: Loretta Solomon, Philadelphia Writing Project
Amelia Coleman-Brown, Philadelphia Writing Project
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