Extra! Extra!
Read All About It—
Motivating GT Writers
• Is your brain on overload with all the
information you have heard today?
• Let your mind escape….peruse a magazine
of your choice
• If you are inclined….
– Zone out in your reading
– Share with a neighbor
– Strike up a conversation
Extra! Extra!
Read All About It—
Motivating GT Writers
Colleen Anthony & Lindsey Reinert
Jefferson County Public Schools
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
9:50-10:50
Kudo
• Know: structures of writing, conduct research,
create rubrics and presentation skills
• Understand: Connecting student’s passions to
content area of writing creates motivation
• Do:
– Engage your students in writing focused around
THEIR interests using multiple genres to create a
magazine.
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Gaining tools to enhance research and student interest
Make real-life connections to the genres of writing
Create emphasis on rubric and self-based evaluation
Provide strategies for procedures
Research Slide: Writing
and the Gifted Child
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Narrowing the topic
Passion for motivation
Reluctant writers
Connecting reading with Writing
Is there enough info on topic
• How to note and cite research
• Handouts will be link to research
Connecting to Colorado
Model Content Standards
Reading and Writing
– Standard 2: Students write and speak for a
variety of purposes
– Standard 3: Students write and speak using
conventional grammar, usage, sentence
structure, punctuation, capitalization, and
spelling.
– Standard 4: Students apply thinking skills to
their reading, writing, speaking, listening and
viewing.
– Standard 5: Students read to locate, select,
and make use of relevant information from a
variety of media, references, and technological
sources.
Percolating Passion
Interest Inventories
• Interest-a-lyzers/Inventories
• Exploring
– Create interest center w/newspapers and
magazines
– Bring outside source—Guest Speaker
– Field Trip
– Web Search
– Library
• Data Gathering
• Interest Inventories
• Strength Explorer
• Renzulli Learning
So….. now what do you do with all
this PASSION and INTEREST to
support writing?
• Make it interest based
• Make something they really care about
• Make sure the topic:
– Has validity
– interest is broad enough that you can get
information
Make it a…
Magazine!
Magazine Project
• Organize format:
– Research Method
• IIM Independent Investigation Method (how to do a
successful research project) iimresearch.com
– Applying Genres of Reading and Writing
• http://langdon.estlc.com/Writing_Genre_Posters.pdf
• Timelines/deadlines:
– Mini-lessons on each component of magazine
– Rubrics specific for components
• Presentation:
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Speaking, Listening, sharing
Magazine Unit Components
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Cover
Table of Contents
Editorial Page
Information Page
Photo Page
Human Interest Article
Who’s Who Article
Words to Know-Glossary
Advertisement
Optional additions:
– Book/music reviews, jokes, cartoons, puzzlers
Rubric
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GT Distinguished/advanced
District Writing Rubric
Expectations
Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
• Self-evaluation
Celebration
• Shared with others your magazine
• Comments section
• Reflection
Closure
• Review Purpose
• Questions
• Power point link:
http://gtresourceteacherjeffc
o.wikispaces.com/CAGT+2009