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CSWP HOLDS FALL LITERACY CONFERENCE

Super Strategy Saturday

November 12, 2011

Using SCRATCH to Create and Share Interactive Stories

with Julie Warner

Super Strategy Saturday:

December 3, 2011

Strong Sentences as Building Blocks for Writing

with Donna Loyd

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As teachers begin their new school year, we all are looking for new literacy strategies to help students become stronger readers and writers. The Coastal Savannah Writing Project, hosted by Armstrong Atlantic State University, is dedicated to helping primary, middle, and secondary school teachers and administrators build student success in literacy by offering professional development opportunities. On October 1, CSWP held its second annual Leap into Literacy conference for K-16 educators. Participants came from Savannah-Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, Effingham, Glynn, Beaufort, and Jasper counties. Our guest speaker was Dr. Bryan Marshall. co-author of Songs of Freedom, an award winning multi-media project for students about the Underground Railroad. The project consists of a picture book, video, and songs written and performed by hip-hip musicians. Dr. Marshall spoke on the topic of using multi-media, multi-genre reading and writing projects to reach our 21st century learners. He also shared extensive narrative writing strategies and ideas for all teachers to take back to their classrooms. After a B&N book sale and author book signing, CSWP Fellows from the 2011 Summer Writing Institute presented twelve one-hour reading and writing strategy workshops in two Breakout Sessions, giving participants a total of three hours of professional development. As one participant wrote, “It was a morning well spent.”

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NOVEMBER SUPER STRATEGY SATURDAY WORKSHOP

TECHNOLOGY & WRITING: Using SCRATCH to Create and Share Interactive Stories Facilitated by Julie Warner, CSWP Technology Director

Saturday, November 12; 9:00am to Noon@ University Hall Room TBA

REGISTRATION FORM is available on CSWP Facebook and the CSWP Website WORKSHOPS page. Registrations must be received by November 4.

Scratch is a free educational programming tool that can be used to create and share virtual stories integrating visual images, animation, and sound to engage even reluctant writers! Developed for use by 6 to 16-year-olds, elementary, middle, and high school teachers can use Scratch as a tool in their classrooms. Scratch overview: http://vimeo.com/2102968

CSWP goes to the AMLE Annual Conference in Louisville

2010 CSWP Fellow Heather Brougham-Cook and CSWP Director Lesley Roessing will be presenting at the annual conference of the Association of Middle-Level Educators (formerly NMSA) in November. Heather will present on “Using Mentor Texts to Teach Content-Area Terminology” and Lesley is presenting on two topics: “Writing to Learn Across the Curriculum” and “Making Information Interesting and Research Rock.” Ms. Roessing was also invited to participate at the AMLE Authors’ Roundtable to share The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension. 2011 Fellow Donna Martin will be attending the conference to add to her repertoire of middle-grade strategies.

October 20 The National Day on Writing In light of the significance of writing in our national life, to draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing

we engage in, and to help writers from all walks of life recognize how important writing is to their lives, NCTE established October 20 as The National Day on Writing. Making it official, the Senate passed resolutions in 2009 and 2010 declaring October 20 the National Day on Writing. CSWP SUGGESTION to honor and celebrate writing on October 20: One activity that all teachers can do with their students is an I Am Poem. The “typical” structure is 3 stanzas. However teachers or writers can feel free to change the verbs, and emergent writers might work best with one or two stanzas. It is more advantageous for teachers to model their example first. I am… I wonder… I hear… I see… I want… I am… After students draft their individual I Am poems, have each put an asterisk or a sticky star or happy face (sticker or drawing) next to a favorite line. Students then stand in a circle and each reads his or her favorite line, creating a class “We Are” poem. You can begin and end with “We are Mrs. Roessing’s 8th Grade English Class” or “We are the _________ School __ Grade students.” It does not matter if students repeat the same verb. CSWP would love to have emailed copies of your class “We Are Poems.” Extensions: In Social Studies class write an “I Am” poem for a historical character; in science, for a planet; in math, a geometric shape or a number; in art class, a painting or artist, in physical education for an athlete…

I pretend… I feel… I touch… I worry… I cry… I am…

I understand… I say… I dream… I try… I hope… I am…

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CSWP SUMMER INSTITUTES The Coastal Savannah Writing Project 2012 Summer WRITING Institute is a 3-week, 6-credit writing institute for K-12 teachers and administrators in all content areas. The Institute provides a place and time for teachers to demonstrate and learn diverse effective classroom practices, teach and learn writing processes, examine writing theory and research, become comfortable writing in divergent modes and genres, independently and collaboratively, and share writings with colleagues.

The Summer Institute brings together local teachers in all grade levels and all disciplines for reading, writing, research, and practice. Participants accepted to join the institute meet each day to read, write, discuss their writing, read about and discuss effective ways to teach writing and use writing as a learning tool, research writing topics, and improve their teaching practices by designing and presenting demonstrations of effective teaching practices. As a result of these activities, teachers are better prepared for their own classrooms and for teaching other teachers.

Summer 2012 Coastal Savannah Writing Project will offer a 2-week, 3-credit READING Institute.

CSWP focuses on the core mission of improving the teaching of reading and writing and improving the use of writing and comprehension of text across the disciplines by offering high-quality, professional development for educators at all grade levels in all content areas, across the curriculum.

WRITING INSTITUTE Institute Dates: June 18 - July 06, 2012 (No class July 4) Times: 8:45am - 3:45pm Orientation: May TBA, 2011 Credits: 6 graduate credits or 10 PLUs/CEUs Cost: $1619* for 6 hours of

graduate credit $800 for 10 PLUs * Scholarships may be available to cover a portion of tuition.

READING INSTITUTE Institute Dates: July 9 —July 19, 2012

Times: 8:45 a.m. –3:15 p.m. Orientation: May TBA, 2011 Credits: 3 graduate credits or 5 PLUs /CEUs Cost: $1079* for 3 hours of

graduate credit $500 for 5 PLUs. * Scholarships may be available to cover a portion of tuition.

Priority Deadline: January 20, 2012 Final Deadline: April 13, 2012

―I‘ve stretched myself beyond what I thought I was capable of. I am thinking like a writer now, seeing things differently, excited about the possibilities with the students I will teach. Barbara, 2010 CSWP Fellow

―I found the strategies to help me find my voice in writing were phenomenal. I cannot teach what I have not experienced myself. The focus on the teacher as a writer will in turn energize the students and promote a life-long love for reading and writing. Deidre, 2011 CSWP Fellow

Registration available on www.cswp.armstrong.edu

NEW! Spring Term 3-credit graduate course “TEACHING WRITING & WRITERS”

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P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N TP R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T

Teaching, Not Assigning, Writing

Narrative Writing Strategies

Informational Writing Strategies

Persuasive Writing Strategies

Designing Writing Units Through the Year

Establishing and Managing a Writing/Reading Workshop

Inquiry & Research Writing

Writing and Reading for Content Area Teachers

Writing to Learn: Response Journals to Increase Comprehension

Teaching & Assessing Writing through the Four Domains

Writing with Style and Voice

Building a Revision Toolbox

Strategies, Procedures, & Content through Daily Mini-Lessons

Multi-Genre Writing

Starting with Sentences to Putting Together Paragraphs

Editing: Teaching Punctuation & Grammar

Using Mentor & Touchstone Texts to Teach Writing/Reading

Reading & Writing Poetry

Effective Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary

Technology & Writing: Digital Storytelling

Technology & Writing: Podcasting

Digital Writing Strategies

Writing College Application Essays (for students)

Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Strategies

Establishing and Managing a Reading Workshop

The Coastal Savannah Writing Project‘s professional development programs are tailored to suit the needs and interests of individual schools and districts. CSWP can provide interactive in-services during the school day or summer months, on-site coaching, assistance with curriculum and planning, and Saturday workshops on the Armstrong campus. The Coastal Savannah Writing Project workshops, in-services, conferences, and institutes provide opportunities for teachers to read, write, learn, question, research, share, teach, and support each other to improve student achievement by improving the teaching of reading and writing.

Super Strategy Saturday Workshops will be held from 9:00-Noon on November 12: Technology and Writing: Using Scratch to Create and Share Interactive Stories December 3: Strong Sentences for Style January 28: Technology and Writing: [Topic TBA] February 25: Teaching K-12 Readers through Reading Workshop March 24: Spring Super Strategies Conference

For Professional Development, contact CSWP Director Lesley Roessing writingproject@armstrong.edu

912.344.2702

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