Strategies for Teaching Integrated
Language Arts Standards

Wright State University English 717 Four Credit Hours
July 16 to July 27 2012  (A two week course)
Monday-Friday 9-12:30 1:30-3:00
For information about the class contact
Nancy Mack nancy.mack@wright.edu

 

 

This is the class that will help you to enjoy teaching. Innovative teaching strategies will stimulate the type of improvements that you want to see in your students’ writing. You will learn how to meet the new Common Core Standards and prepare for achievement tests without making yourself and the students miserable. This class is not a series of lectures but a hands-on experience that will involve you in exciting instructional methods through demonstration lessons. Favorite lessons have been developed over the years from feedback from past participants while other ideas are brand new discoveries from recent research and publications. Routines and organizational tips will help you to integrate reading and writing into your daily plans and keep skills instruction within a meaningful literacy context. You will learn how to use art, visuals, and graphic activities to turn your most reluctant students into allies. You will become familiar with brain-compatible learning while you stretch in new directions, building confidence as both a writer and a teacher. You will walk away from this class with a large notebook full of invigorating ideas. Content area teachers are welcome. Teachers in disciplines other than English are welcome--because all teachers teach reading and writing.

Topics include:

♣ Writing prompts that promote personal connections.

♣ Innovative prewriting gambits that improve writing quantity and quality.

♣ Concrete revision strategies for targeted skills.

♣ Methods for introducing students to the power of literary language.

♣ Guided writing and supportive structures that lead to proficiency success.

♣ Nonfiction reading and writing tools.

♣ Art prints for visualizing writing and improving vocabulary.

♣ Collaborative activities to make poetry come alive.

♣ Teaching grammar with pattern poetry.

♣ Multigenre research writing.

♣ Editing and proofreading instruction that works.

♣ Publishing and celebrating writing with handcrafted bookmaking.

♣ Making writer’s notebooks more visual and graphic.

♣ Reading journal bookmarks for independent reading accountability.

♣ Tips for keeping organized and on track.

♣ Brain-compatible learning.

♣ Metacognitive moments of reflective thinking.

♣ Keeping assignments, standards, and assessment in alignment.

Nancy Mack: Nancy teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the teaching of writing as well as graduate courses in memoir and composition theory at Wright State University. Nancy is a veteran classroom teacher who has won several teaching awards and has taught in many different contexts: middle school, high school, college, and prison. Nancy is a dynamic speaker and an interactive workshop leader who has done numerous presentations at state and national conferences. Working in conjunction with local PBS stations, Nancy developed teaching materials for the Write Site and the Ohio Reading Road Trip multimedia programs. Her books Teaching Grammar with Playful Poetry and Teaching Grammar with Perfect Poetry have been published by Scholastic. She has two articles on multigenre writing.