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This session will focus on the use of instructional strategies to support macro-level writing instruction and the writing process at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. Specifically, strategies to help improve the focus, content, organization, and style of student writing will be discussed. Participants who wish to implement a strategy from this session and attend the second session in this series will receive a presentation template. LINK TO HANDOUTS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XteDceFKSaJ4DmKvEWGjA8TkOU4YieVl?usp=share_link

Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RIIbYVS5OaOHrefVyijucGWRmfB2cni5 This session will focus on the use of instructional strategies to support micro-level writing instruction at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. While handwriting, keyboarding, and spelling will be discussed, emphasis will focus on how to explicitly teach sentence analysis and construction using the “Identify-Expand-Combine- and Create” strategy. Other strategies, including the use of grammar building charts and sentence unscrambling, will be presented.

This video presentation by Joan Sedita is part of a PaTTAN book study series. This five-week series focuses on the components of the Writing Rope and the integration of effective writing instruction into content teaching with the combined goals of improving students’ writing ability and content learning.

In this session participants will review the stages of the writing process (Think, Plan, Write, Revise), learn suggestions for teaching writing strategies at each stage of the writing process, learn about the role of syntactic knowledge for writing sentences, and learn instructional suggestions for teaching sentence writing and elaboration.

This five-week series focuses on the components of the Writing Rope and the integration of effective writing instruction into content teaching with the combined goals of improving students’ writing ability and content learning. In this session participants will learn instructional practices for teaching paragraph structure and writing skills, learn the five patterns of organization and related transition words, review the 3 main types of writing (opinion/argument, informational, narrative), learn instructional practices for teaching the structure of these writing types. Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f6xQSsptgpxnRhMDDr37c0Vv87odR0Kx

In this session participants will learn instructional practices for teaching students how to write summaries, learn instructional strategies for writing in response to prompts using text and other types of sources, review how writing can support content learning, reflect on how the instructional strategies throughout the book can be integrated to support a quality, research-based writing curriculum.

In this first book study session Dr. Louise Spear-Swerling reviews and elaborates on Chapter 1: An Introduction to Structured Literacy and Poor-Reader Profiles. Link to all materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bI2_dgerLc2h2T-OUC3bbvq_k-qgGDqz

This video presentation by Dr. Stephanie Al Otaiba and Dr. Jill Allor is part of a PaTTAN book study series. This ten-week series focuses on structured literacy topics in the book, Structured Literacy Interventions: Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties, Grades K-6. In this second book study session Dr. Stephanie Al Otaiba and Dr. Jill Allor review and elaborate on Chapter 2: Structured Literacy Interventions for Phonemic Awareness and Basic Word Recognition Skills

Link to all materials: https://pattan.padlet.org/pamkastner/x10f9kplpu9dq66r This video presentation is part of a PaTTAN book study series. This ten-week series focuses on structured literacy topics in the book, Structured Literacy Interventions: Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties, Grades K-6. In this ninth book study session Dr. Susan L ambrecht Smith and Dr. Charles Haynes review and elaborate on Chapter 9: Structured Literacy Intervention for Written Expression

Link to all materials: https://pattan.padlet.org/pamkastner/x10f9kplpu9dq66r This video presentation is part of a PaTTAN book study series. This ten-week series focuses on structured literacy topics in the book, Structured Literacy Interventions: Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties, Grades K-6. In this tenth book study session Dr. Louise Spear-Swerling reviews and elaborates on Chapter 10: Structured Literacy Intervention for Mixed Reading Difficulties