Writing PartnershipA Pre-K Through University

Collaboration to Improve Student Writing and Thinking

Dr. Nancy GrasmickDr. Clare Kruft

Why Focus on Writing?

Setting the context…Dr. Nancy Grasmick

Timeline…Phase 1…………Summer development of writing wikiPhase 2…………Course for action

research to improve student

writing and thinkingPhase 3………….Publish the wiki and expand the writing partnership

opportunities

Supporting Common Core…

Text-Based Evidence in Written Responses

Action Research Course

After literature reviews and reading strategy ideas on the Writing

Partnership wiki, the third-grade team of

teacher-researchers discuss possible root causes and creative interventions for

encouraging their young students to deepen their support for their

written ideas.

Beginning Opinions as Argumentation

› Helping third graders understand how using text-based evidence strengthens their arguments for a topic.

Baseline Data…

Capturing baseline information for a young ESOL student

Pre-Kindergarten Budding Writer!

The next day after the baseline discussion of the writing interest survey,

Tanzeela creates her written product.

Next Steps….Revise the wiki to make it accessible as a source of great writing instruction for wider accessPresent to the Academic Team leaders in BCPS to determine possibility for expansionOffer other PBC opportunities to other Maryland counties through Towson University