October+14


 * October 14, 2009****PLC - Writing** **2:45 to 3:25****Lewis' Rm** **Session 1 - Pre-Writing**

This session will look at Pre-Writing Strategies as a tool to help students learn in their content areas. Pre-Writing: Examples of Pre-Writing Strategies
 * Sufficient time for prewriting enables students to understand what they know about the topic.
 * Students explore what they know about a topic by writing on their reading.
 * Can be talking - talk can engage students in purposeful discourse and clarify what they do and do not know.
 * Questioning helps students explore a topic.
 * Freewriting - unstructured and ungraded
 * Talking - remember the talker is the learner
 * Brainstorming and Listing
 * Outline and other Graphic Organizers (see examples)
 * Listing, Indenting, Webbing, & Concept Mapping
 * Prewriting Guide
 * Prewriting Think Sheet
 * Semantic Feature Analysis-draws logical connections between ideas and concepts
 * Journalists' Questions - 5 W's and H