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Writing Strategies
Lee Dubert, 2002
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CAL Objectives
What is the distinction between
composing and transcribing?
How many different writing strategies
can you use?
How can you evaluate student writing?
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Types of Writing in the Classroom
Composing
Do lots of this in your classroom

Transcribing
Bring a few projects to completion
Think about the types of writing students
will need for real world success
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CAL Strategies
Journals
Demonstration
Quick Writes
Possible Sentences
Predicting & Student generated questions
Cubing
Simple and extremely effective!
Writing Roulette
ReWrite
CD
Guided Writing Procedure (modify)
Poetry
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Journals
ModificationNotepassing
Read to #1-write a notes
Exchange notes with your partner
Respond to the note & exchange again
Read to #2-repeat process
Finish Reading
Pick up 3-level guide and begin sampling
statements from all 3 levels.
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Great White Shark Blues

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Guided Writing Procedure
Brainstorm topic with whole class
Record ideas verbatim on board/overhead/smart board
Construct a map, graphic organizer or outline of
content
Individuals write 1 or 2 paragraphs as a first draft
Teacher collects and analyzes using GWP checklist p.
230
Return drafts
Students revise and resubmit
Student Read/research to gather additional
information to include in final draft
Group discussion to revise original outline
Students revise and resubmit compositions
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Guided Writing Procedure-revised
Brainstorm topic with whole class
Record ideas verbatim on board/overhead/smart board
Construct a map, graphic organizer or outline of content
Individuals write 1 or 2 paragraphs as a first draft
Peer exchange use GWP checklist p. 230
Student Read/research to gather additional
information to include in final draft
Group discussion to revise original outline
Students revise and expand first draft
Teacher collects and analyzes using GWP checklist p. 230
Return drafts
Students revise and resubmit

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Writing to Inform Strategies
Autobiographies
Biographies-more in our research
segment
Biopoems/Cinquins (PAC 124)
Research Papers-more in our research
segment
I-search Papers
Imaginative Writing Assignments
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Ideas for Imaginative Writing
Assignments
Poems
Memos
Telegrams
Editorials
Dialogues
Letters
Want-ads
Brochures
Articles
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Cinquain (and other poetry)
PAC p. 124
Quadratic
Balanced manipulated
Subtract, add, divide
A mirror image reflected
Equation
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Other Forms of Poetry
Biopoems CAL 233
Cinquians (PAC)
Poems in Two Voices