Sanders+Elementary+Professional+Learning

=Sanders Elementary School Professional Development=

This wiki has been set up to help colleagues collaborate with each other in the area of writing. These are topics that our teachers chose and they created plans for how they wanted to construct their own learning. We will be posting powerpoints from training as well as useful links to gather more information for your writing instruction.

Food for Thought
This article was suggested by Amy Crosby. When I read it, it reaffirmed what many of you say," Writing is not black and white, but a lot of gray." I will be interested to hear what you all think about this article.

Writing Quotes and Comments - What do you think?
Donald Graves is an author of many books on writing. He passed away in Sptember of 2010. But after reading some of his quotes, I thought I would share them with you and add his books under the resources section.

﻿"Children want to write." These words are just as true now as they were twenty years ago when I first wrote them. I would only add, "If we let them." ...Time is in short supply - especially in writing. - Writing: Teachers & Children at Work (20th anniversary edition), 2003

"I write short pieces about particular occasions and events regularly to keep in touch with the rich world around me. I write for myself. A secondary benefit is that my students are able to learn from someone who is a practitioner of the craft. Writing with your students is probably the single most powerful thing you will do to help them learn to write." - A Fresh Look at Writing, 1994

Resources
﻿Graves, D. (1994). //A fresh look at writing.// Heinemann. Graves, D. & Kittle, P. (2005). //Inside writing: How to teach the details of craft.// Heinemann. Graves, D. (2003). //Writing, 2oth Anniversary edition: Teachers & Children at work.// Heinemann. Ray, K.W. (2007). //Already Ready.// Heinemann. Ray, K.W.(2008). //About the authors.// Heinemann.

Related Links
Every Child a Reader and Writer Inside Teaching Cobb County Language Arts Blog The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching National Writing Project Read Write Think Writing Fix Inside Writing Communities ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿Becky, thanks for uploading all this video options for teachers to see lessons modeled! What a GREAT administrator! Looking at Student Work - Protocols