Greetings!
This newsletter is for teachers of primary students, grades K-2. We know you have a classroom full of fresh young minds ready to succeed in school. We hope this newsletter gives you some ideas and support in starting your new year off right.
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Enjoy! The Write Tools |
 Nancy Conway
Welcome back to school, primary teachers! The following list of strategies was presented at one of our earlier webinars on Primary Writing. We thought teachers would appreciate being reminded what they need to cover and what skills their students need to have by the end of the year. If your students can do more, by all means have them do more. This is the "need to know" list. Many strategies are placed at a grade level and then repeated the next year. We want teachers to revisit strategies and review them even if the students have had them previously.
If you're interested in hearing this Primary Writing webinar, click here to go to our web page where it can be downloaded.
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Planning |
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Tell Me More |
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Summary |
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 Alice Greiner to Present at
90/90/90 Schools Summits Sponsored by Doug Reeves and The Leadership and Learning Center, these summits will highlight research and replicable practices used by results-driven, high achieving schools. You will also learn practical strategies to lead and sustain improvement in times of change. You will hear directly from administrators of now-successful 90/90/90 schools about their journeys, challenges, and successes.
The most important practice of all the successful 90/90/90 schools is the emphasis on expository writing. Alice will be sharing The Write Tools' strategies at these important summits:
September 14-15, New Orleans, Louisiana
October 19-20, Burlingame, California
December 14-15, Las Vegas, Nevada
April 14-15, 2011, Washington DC
May 3-4, 2011, St. Louis, Missouri
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October Workshops in Denver, Colorado!
Join us in Denver, Colorado, for the following workshops:
Two-Day Introductory Workshop-TWT 101
Saturdays, October 2 and 9, 2010, 8:30-3:30-$249
Primary/Level 1 Intensive
Tuesday, October 12 and Thursday, October 14, 2010, 4:30-8:30-$149
Personal Narrative Intensive
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 8:30-3:30-$149
Descriptive Writing Intensive
Call us if you are interested in setting up workshops in your area!
303-221-5301 |
 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades
by Ruth Culham
"Ruth Culham masterfully unlocks the magic of writing for teachers and
students alike. She's created an invaluable resource for primary
teachers to use in guiding children as they begin the journey of
learning to write. Included are suggestions on what to say to young
writers, teaching ideas, examples of student work, scoring guides to
assess primary students' writing and much, much more! Ruth's book will
touch your heart and leave you excited about writing. Voice in
non-fiction? You bet! Anything's possible, once you know the traits."
--- Libby Jachles , Instructional Specialist, Council Rock Primary
School, Brighton Central School District, Rochester, NY
(reviewer on Amazon.com)
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 Set goals for the semester with this Autumn Tree Activity.
This is a great activity that can be adapted to the classroom. Create this tree with many leaves.Work with students to develop an appropriate goal for them to achieve this winter. Ask them to write a sentence about their goal on one of the leaves. As they move toward achieving their goal their leaf begins to fall off of the tree. Soon you'll have a bare tree and successful students!
Click here for more information about this activity.
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 | | Doug Reeves Endorses The Write Tools! | |
Dr. Reeves believes in the importance of today's students being strong writers. View a short video clip of Dr. Reeves discussing the strategies The Write Tools offers teachers and students. Then examine the data of the outstanding results many schools have achieved on state assessments using these strategies.
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 | | The Write Tools Companion Software is now available for the Macintosh! | | PC users have been thrilled with our new TWT Companion Software. Now Mac Users can find out what all the excitement's about!
Call us at 303-221-5301 if you would like to receive a demo disk.
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