Illinois Writing Project
Illinois Writing Project
Nationally recognized staff development on literacy education with highly experienced teacher leaders.
Nationally recognized staff development on literacy education with highly experienced teacher leaders.
Teaching Writing: Basic Writing Project Workshop Series
(30 hours)
Our introductory workshop employs several ways to learn about teaching writing. For a start teachers write, themselves, to concretely understand the supports that writers need. They examine samples of their students' writing to analyze patterns of development and typical difficulties. The participants review the research that offers solid guidance about what works in teaching writing. And in the largest segment of the workshop teachers experiment with a broad range of practical, successful strategies, troubleshooting and fine-tuning promising practices together.
Topics typically covered:
•classroom organization
•prewriting strategies
•revision activities
•one-to-one conferencing
•peer editing
•record-keeping, evaluation, and grading of writing
•sharing and publishing student work
•preparation for state assessments
All of these strategies enable teachers to address the new Common Core Standards as well as to serve the needs of English Language Learners and Special Education students.
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All courses are available as either professional development workshops or in-classroom support. Length of instruction applies to Inservice Programs only. Click here for descriptions.
Teaching Writing
(30 hours of instruction)
Learning Through Content Area Reading and Writing
(15-30 hrs)
Classroom Workshop, Using the Six-Plus-One Traits Assessment
(15-30 hrs)
Teaching Writing with English Language Learners
(30 hrs)
Reading-Writing Connections
(30 hrs)
The First Month of School
(12 hrs)
Literacy Coaching
(15 hrs)
Advanced Workshops
(15-30 hrs)
Literature Circles:
Collaborative Reading and Writing
(15-30 hrs)