Teaching+Writing+In+&+Across+Grade+Levels

The following wiki pages represent efforts to better understand approaches for teaching writing at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels, as well as what the approaches at these levels have in common. Each page includes the scenario prompting your work together!


 * Step I -- Class 5:** Your initial group work should be added to each of the first 3 wiki pages below! The secondary groups will probably want to create a Google Doc first before posting to the wiki. You will want add to your wiki page without overwriting the other group's content.


 * Processing Interactive Writing //- Dr. Young//


 * Processing Atwell's In the Middle - //Kelly, Tanesha, Lakeisha, & Hannah//


 * Processing Urbanski's Workshop Approach for the H.S. English Classroom - Secondary Group A: //Teresa, Jen, Blakely, & Willis//; Secondary Group B: //Jamye, Heather, Anna, James, & Scott//


 * Step II -- Class 6:** You will collaborate with a jigsaw group [TBD] to create a google doc that represents the intersection of the texts above plus some additional reading assigned over the next two weeks. The jigsaw page below will feature our "compiled" (Hicks, p. 44) ideas about teaching writing across grade levels addressing specific questions. Please build on our class discussion to contribute ideas, questions, and answers to this page!


 * Jigsaw Group Results: Writing Instruction Across Grade Levels


 * Information on the [|Jigsaw Strategy]


 * Jigsaw group Google Doc for James, Lakeisha, Hannah, Blakely, and Anna