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Agenda for Micro Pine Elementary School

November 10, 2010 2:30-4:30 Whole Faculty

Topics: Book 3 in the series K-2: Writing for readers: Teaching skills and strategies 3-5: Breathing life into essays

Assessment - Quick write: What’s gone well? What do you have questions about?
 * Jot down on an index card.
 * Discuss in your groups.
 * Develop a statement to share out about how your grade level or content area is doing with writers workshop. What are your needs? What is going well?

Modeling and Lessons: Focus on the Readings: Wrap Up:
 * What is an essay? Ways to write a good essay. [|PPT about Essays]
 * Model Lesson. Resource for this lesson: [|Painting a Picture with Words]
 * View Minilesson
 * Writing more, and writing more clearly.
 * Model Lesson. Book: [|I Am America]
 * View Minilesson
 * Discussion about “Big Ideas”. What is the main focus of the book? What do you want to accomplish?
 * Flowchart for Lesson Planning
 * Talk in groups about the lessons you want to implement
 * How might you get started in implementing these ideas? How long might they take? How can you support each other?

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