TOPICS TO BE EXPLORED:

• The reading/writing connection
• Generating a reading journal
• Written responses to literature that are:
  Interpretative
  Analytic
  Evaluative
  Reflective

• Helping students to extend ideas and make connections to related topics
• Questioning strategies to stretch student thinking
• Producing a report with an organizing structure appropriate to a specific purpose
• Writing opportunities on the Internet
• ABC writing patterns (primary)
• The writing process (pre writing, drafting, revising, editing, sharing)
• Playing with sentences (vocabulary substitution, expanding sentences, rearranging sentences, sentence reduction)
• Pattern books as springboards to writing
• Using inductive reasoning in writing a mystery
• Developing the characters, setting and plot of a story
• Storyboards (a great way to rehearse before writing)
• Poetry writing patterns from the masters
• Writing and performing readers theatre
• Springboards to writing to persuade, to describe, to inform.
• How to produce a clearly written, well developed research report with NO copying
• Research reporting patterns
• Elaboration as a writing tool

This workshop can be offered as a one or two day workshop. An optional one semester hour of graduate credit from Lindenwood University is available for two day workshops.