Writing With Confidence: Narrative, Opinion, & Information

This is an ongoing class that covers one genre of writing each week.  Students are given a writing prompt and a graphic organizer. To ensure that students understand the writing tasks, all graphic organizers include the prompt AND a little picture to represent the writing prompt. Students are also provided with draft paper with built-in-support. The built-in support on the draft paper includes sentence starters, word banks, and self-assessment checklists. 

- Sentence starters are great for helping students structure their writing, use transition words, and write in complete sentences.
- Word banks provide language and vocabulary support.
- Self-assessment checklists help students learn to routinely self-assess their writing. They also help “fast finishers” slow down, edit, and revise their work!

This is an ongoing class, so students are welcome to join any week. I keep my class size small so that I can offer effective feedback and guidance.

Schedule of topics each week:
Week of Aug. 19: Narrative
Week of Aug. 26: Opinion
Week of Sept. 4: Information
Week of Sept. 11: Narrative
Week of Sept. 18: Opinion
Week of Sept. 25: Information
Week of Oct. 2: Narrative
Week of Oct. 9: Opinion
Week of Oct. 16: Information
Week of Oct. 23: Narrative
Week of Oct. 30: Opinion
Week of Oct. 30: Information
Week of Nov. 6: