OWP Friends--
Attached is the program and registration form for the August 29 drive-in. This summer's class was spectacular. We hope you'll come and bring lots of teacher friends with you to participate in three of these outstanding workshops. There will be no registration fee for OWP teacher consultants, and if teachers pre-register, the cost is only $15 for four hours' of staff development credit. Please support our new teacher consultants. You'll be glad you did.
Janis
Session
One: 8:45-10:00
“Writing
Centers in the Elementary Classroom”
Lisa
Buchanan, McKinley Elementary, Norman, OK
Tired of the same old book reports year after year? Then this
presentation is for you! Participants will be actively engaged in
creative writing projects, as an outlet for responding to literature.
These activities support a variety of learning styles and can be easily adapted
to any subject or grade level.
“We
Are Pre-K! Mighty, Mighty Pre-K! If You Can’t Hear Us,We’ll Write A Little Louder!”
Using
Literacy Centers To Teach Writing to Pre-K Students
Mischa
Owen, Lake Park Elementary, Bethany, OK
Preschoolers can write? Yes, we can! This presentation will reveal how
children begin to write by observing and interacting with adults and other
children as they use literacy in everyday life. Participants will
actively participate in writing strategies through oral language, shared
writing, and other activities suitable for pre-kindergarten.
“Using
Notebooks To Improve Student Learning across the Curriculum”
Jessica
Barrett, Alcott Middle School, Norman, OK
Learn how to integrate strategies such as graphic organizers, mnemonic devices,
free writes, and other tried and true teachers’ tools into a comprehensive
student notebook. Strategies modeled in this presentation enhance student
learning through reflection and inquiry. Learn techniques
for
managing, evaluating, assessing, and responding to students’ notebooks across
the curriculum.
Empowering
Struggling Readers with Scaffolding and Self-RegulatingReading and
Writing Strategies”
Kathy
Redding, The University of Oklahoma
Do you need an effective approach to assist struggling readers in your
secondary classroom? This presentation offers explicit strategies for
planning, monitoring, and modifying student comprehension and cognition.
Using specific concrete strategies, participants will engage in activating
prior knowledge and monitoring their own learning with self-observation,
self-judgment, and self-reaction. In addition, learners will experience scaffolding instruction aligned
with the Oklahoma Language Arts Pass Objectives.
“Not
Yo' Mama's Classroom: Engaging
Readers and Writers Using Pop Culture”
Kamrin
Grissom, Moore West Junior High, Moore, OK
Tired
of competing with celebrity gossip, movies, music, and television? Discover ways to engage your students using
their unique interests. This presentation examines how to use pop culture in
the classroom to inspire student writing. Participants will participate in
activities incorporating pop culture and writing and will explore alternatives
for authentic classroom research.
Session
Two: 10:10-11:25
“Writing
Across the Curriculum with Fairy Tales”
DeAnna
Gwatney, McKinley Elementary, Norman, OK
This
presentation provides creative writing ideas for integrating Fairy Tales across
the curriculum. Participants will explore a variety of writing activities
easily adaptable to all grade levels.
"Juicy
Words: Fostering Descriptive Writing in the Classroom"
Sarah
Pierini, Washington Elementary, Norman, OK
This presentation provides creative ideas for teachers of all grade levels to
promote descriptive writing in their classrooms. Participants will actively
engage in a variety of writing activities that foster growth in creating
“juicy” writing and assist teachers in guiding students through the stages of
the writing process.
“Writing
About Reading Can Be Revealing! Using Journal Writing in Response to
Reading”
Heather
Wakefield, Winding Creek Elementary,Moore, OK
This presentation provides educators with a variety of methods for engaging
students in thinking and responding to literature through journal
writing. The participants will actively learn how to use a variety of
different journaling styles with students.
“Snapshots
of Your Students: Using Writing to Connect to the Lives in Your
Classroom” Jennifer
Sutton, Newcastle Middle School, Newcastle,
OK
This presentation will help you discover who is sitting in your classroom,
what is important to them, and how you can motivate them to learn. You
will explore obsessions: What is most important to you? What makes you
who you are? After doing this for yourself, you will be prepared to guide your students in showing you who they are.
You will hear student examples of reflective writing assignments and
receive tips for pairing up students for the revising and editing stages of the
writing process. These autobiographical projects will provide you with
snapshots of your students!
“Digital
Writers: Harnessing Technology to Enhance Writing” Jason Stephenson, Deer Creek High School, Edmond,
OK
Are your students addicted to their iPods and cell phones? These twenty-first
century learners use technology to make sense of their world. Why not use the
power of YouTube, audio files, social networks, and blogs in the classroom?
Teachers can use the Internet to enhance writing
instruction. Using student examples, this presentation guides teachers in
becoming more comfortable using technology with each stage of the writing
process. Participants will explore the merits of including technology in the
classroom, respond to technology-driven writing prompts and activities, and
learn to apply basic technology skills in the classroom.
Session
Three: 11:35-12:50
“’That
Was Easy!’: Improving Reading and Writing Fluency through Poetry
Publishing”
Deborah
West, Northridge Elementary,Oklahoma City, OK
This
presentation will give teachers a variety of ideas on easy ways to incorporate
writing poetry in the elementary classroom. Participants will engage in
writing activities that demonstrate ways to encourage repeated readings to help
students improve reading fluency and writing skills.
“I
Search, You Search, Wee Search: Wacky Ways to Use Research in Your
Classroom”
Erin
Montgomery, Kennedy Elementary, Norman, OK
This presentation gives a comprehensive overview of various methods of
incorporating research to help refine students’ writing and presenting skills
in multiple formats.
“Tune
in to Your Tone: Put a Sparkle in Your Eyes andTone in your
Voice”
Sabrina
Herrera , Norman North High School, Norman, OK
In
response to writing, Graycie Harmon explains, “"Writers are just people
who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with
pen and paper as their preferred method of transport. Same with dancers,
artists, and singers - all the same urges with differing
transportation." This presentation offers ideas for implementing
fine arts into writing activities across the curriculum by helping students
make personal and meaningful connections to music, art, and color and while
specifically focusing on Voice from the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing.
“Can
we just watch the movie?”
“Scaffolding
Literacy through Film, Graphic Novels, and Visual Images”
Kendel
Krause, Norman High School, Norman, OK
William
Kist, author of New Literacies in Action: Teaching and Learning in
Multiple Media, raises the question,
“What is a text?” As an English teacher, I am required to teach literacy
skills, analytical strategies, and writing skills through the use of
texts. Does “text” mean textbook, book, and other written media, or could
it reference other types of media? I would like to
believe in Kist's definition of text, “text is anything that communicates; A
garden is a text”(111). Through this presentation, you will learn how to
motivate and scaffold literacy through the use of film, graphic novels, and
visual images-derived and based upon pedagogical researchers such as Harry
Noden, Patrick P. McCabe, Anne Nielsen Hibbing, and Ellen Bishop.
Janis Cramer Co-Director of Inservice Oklahoma Writing Project Teachers Teaching Teachers Phone and Fax: 405-495-4903 820 Van Vleet Oval University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019 www.ou.edu/special/owp