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=Non-Fiction Writing - Materials from WMS Full Day PD Session on 10/12/10= media type="custom" key="7370663"

Materials for 10/12/10 WMS PD Session

 * **Agenda:** [|Agenda for Non-Fiction Writing 10-5-10.doc]
 * **RAFT Warm-up Activity:** [|Bee Life Stages RAFT Activity.doc]
 * **Bee Life Stages Article for RAFT:** [|Bee Life Stages.doc]
 * **Non-Fiction Writing Learning Log:** [|Non-Fiction Writing Learning Log.doc]
 * **Non-Fiction Writing PowerPoint:** [|Non-fiction Writing.ppt]
 * **99 Types of Non-Fiction Writing:** [|99 Types of Non-Fiction Writing.doc]
 * **Instructions for Vertical Team Work**
 * **Lesson Planning Resources for All Content Areas:** http://ctteams.wikispaces.com/ContentAreaResources

Non-Fiction Writing Tools and Strategies
Having students use Advance Organizers is a helpful non-fiction writing strategy which can serve to activate prior knowledge and organize their thinking. Click on the links below for some useful Advance Organizer resources:
 * Advance Organizers**
 * **Advance & Graphical Organizers from Goochland County, VA Schools:** []
 * **Education World Organizers:** []
 * **Scholastic Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension:** []

Exit Cards are a useful non-fiction writing strategy. They provide students with an opportunity to reflect on what they have learned and they provide teachers with formative assessment diagnostic information for future planning and instruction. For some examples of Exit Cards, click on the links below (NOTE: Some are Word documents that you can use or adapt; others are links to Web sites with examples):
 * Exit Cards/Exit Slips**
 * **Exit Card (3-2-1):** [|3-2-1 Exit Card.doc]
 * **Exit Card (with graphic triggers):** [|Exit Card with graphic triggers.doc]
 * **Exit Card (Plus/Minus/Interesting):** [|Exit Card PMI.doc]
 * **Exit Slips from All About Adolescent Literacy:** []
 * **Math Exit Card Question Samples:** []

Learning Logs and Journals are great places to use non-fiction writing across the curriculum. They provide a place where students can reflect and write about what they have learned, ask questions and make connections.
 * Learning Logs and Journals**
 * [|Dialectical or Double-Entry Journal]
 * [|Journaling from the Schools of California Online Resources for Education]
 * [|The Learning Log from the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse]
 * [|Learning Logs from Calhoun County Schools]
 * [|Learning Logs from Kent, Washington Schools]
 * [|Metacognitive Journal]
 * [|Reflective Journal]
 * [|Speculation About Effects Journal]
 * [|Using Learing Logs in Mathematics from PBS]
 * [|What Are Learning Logs from Saskatoon Public Schools]
 * [|Writing to Learn with Learning Logs from Glencoe]

Foldables are simple tools designed by Dinah Zike and used by teachers all over the country. Foldables can be used to activate prior knowledge, take notes, and represent learning. They are a valuble scaffold for encouraging non-fiction writing and notetaking.
 * Foldables**
 * **[|Creating a Lapbook]**- Click here for a template for creating a lapbook from an 8 1/2" x 11" file folder.
 * **[|Dinah Zike's Foldables]**- Click here for a Foldables book by Dinah Zike.
 * **[|Dinah Zike's Web Site]**- Click here for Dinah Zike's Web site.
 * Foldables Wikispace- Click here for Donna Drasch and Rebecca Pilver's Foldables Wiki with great resources for using foldables with students.
 * **[|Get in the Fold Blog]**- Click here for Donna Drasch and Rebecca Pilver's Foldables blog which focuses on literature, foldables and learning.
 * **[|Rubric for Foldables]**(from McGraw Hill) - Cick here for a Rubric to use with student foldables.

Notetaking is an important non-fiction writing strategy. However, you cannot ask students to take notes if they do not know how to summarize since they won't know what is important to take notes on. Students should be taught how to summarize and take notes as young as kindergarten. There are a variety of tools that you can use with students to help them with notetaking. Click on the links below to explore some (NOTE: See Summarizing section below for more tools and strategies):
 * Notetaking**
 * **Cornell Notes Resources:**
 * //**Cornell Method PDF Generator:**// To use an online Cornell Notes generator, go to: []
 * //**Cornell Notes from English Companion:**// For a detailed explanation and sample format, go to: []
 * //**Cornell Notes from James Madison University:**// For a description and example, go to: []
 * //**Cornell System:**// For an explanation and samples, go to: [] (Cornell Notes are not just for college students!)
 * **Double Entry Diaries, Inner Voice Sheets and Conversation Calendars:** [|Ways to Help Students Hold Their Thinking from Cris Tovani.doc]

RAFT is a non-fiction writing strategy used in CRISS (CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies). RAFT stands for **R**ole, **A**udience, **F**ormat and **T**opic+strong verb. It provides a framework and a scaffold to help students write.
 * RAFT Writing Strategy**
 * //**[|RAFT Background & Benefits]**//- Click here for an explanation of the RAFT Writing strategy.
 * **RAFT Handout**- Click here for a Word document with a RAFT template and some examples of roles and formats.
 * **[|RAFT Lesson Plans and Template]**- Click here for a Web site at Augustana College in SD for lesson plans, templates and a rubric for using RAFT.
 * **[|RAFT Writing Prompt Lesson Plan for Persuasive Letters]**- Click here for a lesson plan which uses Dear Mrs. LaRue as a mentor text to assist students in writing persuasive letters.
 * Student Sample RAFT Writing Assignment - Click here for an example of a middle school student's Science RAFT.

Summarizing is a useful non-fiction writing strategy which helps students eliminate "the wheat from the chaff". There are a variety of tools to help students learn how to summarize. Click on the links below for some of these tools:
 * Summarizing**
 * **7 Steps in Summarizing:** [|7 Steps of Summarizing.doc]
 * **Summarizing Handout from WMS PD:** [|Summarizing Handout FINAL 1-23-06.doc]
 * **GIST Templates:**
 * [|GIST Template 32 Words.doc]
 * [|GIST Template 20 Words.doc]
 * **Summary Frames:**
 * [|How to Summarize a Passage Using One-Sentence Sentence Frames]
 * [|One Sentence Summaries from Elgin High School]
 * [|Summary Frames from Classroom Instruction that Works]
 * [|Summary Frames from the Northern Nevada Writing Project]
 * [|Summary Frames from the South Dakato Educational Service Agencies]

//**Adolescent Literacy** Resources//

 * **Adolescent Literacy Homepage -** For the homepage of the All About Adolescent Literacy Web site which has a wealth of resources to support reading and writing at the middle and high school level, go to: []
 * **Adolescent Literacy Classroom Strategies** - For a matrix of classroom strategies that support vocabulary, comprehension and writing with links to examples and handouts, go to: []

Writing Tools

 * **MY Access**
 * **Web 2.0 Writing Tools:** http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Writing+Tools

Lesson Planning Tools and Resources
Click on the links below to access resources to assist with lesson planning:
 * **Thinkfinity:** []
 * Content Area Resource Links on this Wiki
 * Interdisciplinary
 * The Arts
 * English/LA
 * Health/PE
 * Math
 * Science
 * Social Studies
 * World Languages