Language Arts
WRITING WITH KIDS: Real Writing With Real Results (THIS COURSE IS CLOSED)
Course No. ED450k, ED550k
This course is closed.
We are no longer accepting registrations.
Inspire great writing from your students with writing workshop tools and techniques that provide structure, content, and increased confidence in your own writing and teaching. In this course you'll join writer and children's author Deb Lund who was already instructing teachers about writing with kids when the text we'll use by Lucy Calkins, The Art of Teaching Writing, was first published in the mid-1980's. Become a mentor for your students and model the writing process as you explore fiction, memoir, essay, and poetry writing together. This comprehensive course will help give you the excitement you've longed for in your writing teaching.
Appropriate for teachers of grades K-12. The Calkins text, you will find in the Required Text section. Just click on the picture below for Lucy Calkins book, The Art of Teaching Writing, and click on this link for Deb Lund's Writing With Kids PDF.
| We advise you to review and download the course syllabus before registering. | Syllabus |
1. An understanding of developmental levels of writing acquisition and support for students at the levels they teach.
2. Tools and techniques for establishing a classroom writing environment with procedures and expectations in place.
3. An assortment of techniques for conferring with students about their writing, modeling steps of the writing process, designing lessons to address specific writing needs, and assessing writing using chosen criteria.
4. Determined which district, state, or national objectives, goals, outcomes, or standards for teaching writing have been met in their classroom writing activities.
