Developing writing by creating academic ownership in the classroom. Presentation focuses on building autonomy and authenticity for students in the writing classroom, as well as incorporating writing across the curriculum. 

Take your students from boredom to bliss with writing! Getting started is often the most challenging time for any author. Whether it is a lack of desire, suffering stamina, or reluctance, your students can show that ‘blank page’ who’s boss! 

Learn cooperative learning techniques to make writing more interactive and collaborative in your classroom. Techniques will focus on writing connections, however can be applied across all subject areas. 

The Colorful Crayon Adventure will allow participants to learn ways to help reluctant writers by using a mentor text.

Participants will learn and practice the writing process through the use of the book series "There was an old woman who..." They will help their students to create their own Old Woman Story through a variety of individual and class activities. 

Having trouble getting students to write using any standard? Let’s dig into using a 4-square foldable to help students write across ANY standard!
 

Writing has the power to build community and relationships among students as they learn to express themselves through various forms of creative writing. Whether it be in person or through technology, students can benefit greatly from harnessing their individual voice through prose. 

Having trouble getting kids excited about writing? Feel like you don’t have enough time to cover every standard? W.O.W. journals provide a fun and
interactive way for kids to engage in writing activities that can be used to review curriculum across the grade level.

Do your students groan when you ask them to write? If you have learners who think they hate reading and writing, this presentation is for you! You will participate in several entertaining activities that can be implemented in your classroom. Activities focus on inspiring descriptive writing, using mentor texts in innovative ways, interactive writing, and revision using games.

This presentation will highlight mentor texts that can be used to encourage writers in multi-genre writing. The strategies presented incorporate the new Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts. 

This presentation will use highlight various "autobiographical" focus writing lesson/activities perfect for beginning the school year and using as extensions later in the calendar year. These lessons are designed to boost self-esteem and build confidence in your writers.

This presentation will highlight the fact that writing is a social activity and one of our primary means of communication. We will explore strategies for building strong writers while fostering our classroom communities.

Do you need a toolbox filled with easy to implement and highly engaging writing lessons? Then this writing demonstration is for you!

Participants will learn about a variety of writing prompts, and writing scaffolds that can be applied across curriculum areas. These activities will help teachers guide students through the writing process. The lessons presented will help students gather and organize information, generate new ideas, and learn to analyze and synthesize their writing.

This presentation will demonstrate how popular trade books can be used as a springboard for creative writing in the intermediate grades.

The session will include lesson ideas for integrating writing into the social studies, and science curriculum. Participants will collaborate and actively create writing pieces from the four main writing modes. The lessons demonstrated are versatile and sure to pique interest in writing in the elementary school classroom.
Technology integration will also be discussed.

“To teach literacy well, we must interact personally with our students, helping them to make sense of their lives through reading and writing” (Kirby, Kirby, & Liner, ix). Literacy is created from multiple layers. In this presentation, participants will develop an understanding of how the steps of the writing process and the vocabulary of the six traits fit together to create a framework for teaching and assessing writing. Hands-on activities will provide teachers the footing needed so students can build a strong foundation, the power of words, and a love of writing.  

Writing well requires combining multiple physical and mental processes simultaneously to communicate information and ideas. Participants will learn how to establish interactive writing in your classroom, assess student learning and needs of students, as well as strategies for modeling writing that will engage all learners in your classroom.

Grow your knowledge of the new ELA standards, major shifts, and how they apply to your specific grade level. Build a vision of a proficient student based on the 2021 ELA standards and expand your knowledge and vocabulary to successfully implement the standards. 

State standards require students to write for a variety of purposes and audiences. To train for a race, athletes must build their endurance, the same is true for writers. Participants will engage in activities to build writing fluency and increase writing stamina with their students so they can flex their writing muscles all the way to the finish line. 

Writing is thinking, and thinking takes time. For that reason, it is often neglected in the content areas, but it is an important tool for improving student achievement. Marzano states writing is one of three main ways to enhance higher order thinking in students. Writing across the curriculum helps students learn subject matter and improve writing fluency at the same time. Through hands-on activities, participants will learn to use writing in any subject area to enhance thinking and processing of information without sacrificing required curriculum.