Act+48+Shady+Grove+Writing

**Research sites:**
 * [|Qwiki file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=33733"]] [|Glossopedia file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=29670"]] [|Reference Resources file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=28167"]] [|Science News for Kids file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/text.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=25386"]] [|KidsKnowIt text file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=24144"]] [|Fact Monster! file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=12358"]] [|Library Card Catalog file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=12025"]] [|Internet Public Library file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=12661"]] [|Google Safe Search file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=12024"]] [|Altapedia: Countries/Maps around the world file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=24315"]] [|Sweet Search for Students file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=27150"]] [|Dog Pile file]
 * [[image:http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/pix/f/web.gif link="http://wsdmoodle.mciu.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=31265"]] [|World Almanac]

**Faculty Meeting June 7: End of year reflections**  https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDlDSW9TQmVzYU9PSGF0QW5iNE5RdUE6MQ



 **Faculty Meeting May 24:** Grade Group Work on Graphic Organizers 

 **Planning for 5/12 for last mtg.**  http://growingwithgoogle.iu1.wikispaces.net/ (Google doc short video)  Teachers will use google docs by grade group to.... Which Google Tools can help us to be more effective in our teaching and learning practices?  - How can Google Tools be used collaboratively to transform teaching and learning experiences?  - How can specific Google Tools be used creatively in classroom instruction?  - How can specific Google Tools be used to organize documents, presentations and other types of materials?  - How can specific Google Tools be used to create efficiency in teaching and learning?  - How can Google Tools create rich documentation of teaching and learning?

 Sample google doc  cmeulstee@gmail.com <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> shady143

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> FACULTY MEETING 4/26/10

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://lightningbug.com.au/index.htm (writing resources) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.greatsource.com/iwrite/students/s_fic_narr.html

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Digitizing writing workshop <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://sites.google.com/site/digitizeww/home

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Another graphic organizer site: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.mangomon.com/blog/bid/21445/Online-Graphic-Organizers-for-Use-With-Special-Education-Students

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Best sites for writing <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://classtools.net/twitter/tweet.php?message=50%2520Free%2520Resources%2520That%2520Will%2520Improve%2520Your%2520Writing%2520Skills&url=http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/28/50-free-resources-that-will-improve-your-writing-skills

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> POETRY <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.poets.org/poemADay.php <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://gottabook.blogspot.com/

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Act 48 Meeting <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.jsp http://www.tammyworcester.com/TipOfWeek/TammyWTechTipOfWeek/Entries/2010/3/18_Tip_83_-_Graphic_Organizers_(Customizable!).html possible warm-up: http://www.worksheetworks.com/miscellanea/graphic-organizers/pmi.html

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[[file:Identifying 3 Types of Prompts[1].notebook]]Tweek Liesl's notebook file for 4/26
Goals: Know how to identify type of writing and identify graphic organizers that support that type of writing.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Faculty Meeting 3/8 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> 6 Traits website: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/sixtraits.html <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://senior.billings.k12.mt.us/6traits/

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Committee Meeting Agenda for 2/24: Persuasive Writing <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Inservice 2/12 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://jc-schools.net/writeaway/prompts1.html (persuasive writing prompts) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=529 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/forms%20of%20writing/formwriting.htm

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.you-can-teach-writing.com/writing-objectives.html

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> BLOG: http://motivatingboywriters.blogspot.com/

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://thefilecabinet.pbworks.com/Writing

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.diversitycouncil.org/elActivities.shtml

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> another website <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.writingfun.com/

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Graphic organizers for writing (scroll down left side) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/56506.html?detoured=1

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> SB Notebook for 12/7

Website: http://www.squidoo.com/tags/teaching+writing

another website: http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/bestpractice/writer/examples.html

http://www.thewritingsite.org/resources/technology/glogster.asp

http://writingfix.com/process/Revision/Metaphor_cards_Activity.htm

21st Century Skills: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/sept09/vol67/num01/toc.aspx

http://www.yowiebay-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/IWB%20Links%20Englishyowiebay.htm

Mandy sent this from a workshop she went to: http://www.thewritingsite.org/exemplars/index.asp It has exemplars for each grade (different rubric and genres though)

Writing contests http://teachingwithcontests.com/

http://www.nwp.org/ http://www.readingrockets.org/books/fun/exquisiteprompt

REVISIT: Fletcher's Craft of Writng

For futrure PD's 1. Informational

2. Persuasive - I bought the book: __Why We Run With Scissors__ Imovie: making models for writing characteristics Toby will create models and align with Being A Writer

SNOWBALL FIGHT

Coffee break (from Nancy L ) PP http://www.fcrr.org/

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/writing/recent

ENCHANTED LEARNING

NOVEMBER 3 SCRIPT as of 10/23/09

NOVEMBER 3 AGENDA - 3 HOURS Part A: Igniting Writing: “Focus on a Four” Part B: Igniting Writing: Data Driven Teaching and Learning

__Act 48 Meeting #2__ __IDEAS__
 * Looking at Student Work:
 * Using the pre-assessment and find proficient and advance papers.
 * Why is it a four
 * What do we need to teach in order to make it a four?

here is an idea—go over the stages of the writing process, then, working in pairs have teachers draft pieces of writing using the three modes: informational, narrative, persuasive—or divide into groups according to the mode then pair to produce the piece. Then use the scoring guide to talk about the piece produced and also to think about how Student Writing can be improved using the scoring guide as a guide.
 * Donna Merin:


 * http://www.nwp.org/


 * http://www.nudgingtheimagination.com/professionaldevelopment.html


 * [|The Reading Lady]


 * Blue Book


 * blogging
 * http://www.thereadingworkshop.com/2009/10/fake-reading-will-smith-and-being.html

* *  Use the above bullets above (collaborative sites for writing) Have focus questions. Each group becomes an expert.
 * Reading workshop wiki
 * http://www.thereadingworkshop.com/
 * http://writinglesson.ning.com/
 * blue book ( have copies)
 * writingfix.com

Looking at Student Work: Collaborative Scoring

Examining the Rubric
 * Content
 * Focus
 * Organization
 * Style
 * Conventions

Wallwisher as a reflection: http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/phvaFIWN9u

Act 48 Meeting #1 [|9 meeting #1.notebook] Notes from meeting 9/9: (see notebook agenda above) 3:00-3:50 Participants: Beth, Toby, Donna S., Theresa, Lynn, Liesl, Maureen, Carrie, Donna M.,
 * prioritizing topics for future faculty meetings
 * Being A Writer: big picture - getting teachers immersed into the program
 * PSSA: Looking at the data - but then what?
 * Potential agenda for 10/5 would include looking at a proficient piece of writing and brainstorming the reasons why. Toby will email ideas to Beth by Friday and put agenda together and post to this site for input, suggestions, etc. by Monday

Additional websites from Donna Merin [] [] -- (this is the page I took the handout from)--scroll the page down—it’s the second green bullet under “What are the Seven Elements?” on the lower right hand side of the page.

AGENDA FOR 9-19-09 Objective: To meet with all teachers of BAW as a follow up to the summer training [|SG BAW agenda 9-19-09.docx]

Rough draft of script for first meeting 10/5 [|script? for SG writing oct. 5.docx]

Comprehension checks: Collaborative scoring?

This is a great website with videos talking about their writing. []

SB Notebook Presentation for 10/5/09