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Day 1: Morning Breakout Session Beyond the Units of Study Beth Moore, Instructor @BethMooreSchool How are nonfiction books different from fiction books? Genre Immersion: Read-Aloud Nonfiction Both Fiction Read like a writer: Notice the


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Beyond the Units

  • f Study

Beth Moore, Instructor @BethMooreSchool

Day 1: Morning Breakout Session

How are nonfiction books different from fiction books?

Nonfiction Both Fiction

Genre Immersion: Read-Aloud

Read like a writer: Notice the way these texts are STRUCTURED.

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What other text structures might we notice in nonfiction texts?

  • Nonfiction Video Texts

◆ How Does it Grow? Oranges ◆ Chaser, the Border Collie ◆ John Green: Crash Course on American History

5th Grade Cyber Ninja

What strategies can we pull from this mentor text?

Day 1: Afternoon Breakout Session

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Setting Up Writing Notebooks

  • Personalize
  • Create clear expectations
  • Contract
  • Do’s & Don’ts

Living Like Writers

  • These Are A Few of My

Favorite Things (p. 105)

  • Word Mapping (p. 119)

Planning/Structuring Opinion or Argument Writing ◆ Boxes and Bullets ◆ Writing Across the Pages ◆ Paragraphs ◆ Nonfiction Leads (p. 187)

Day 2: Morning Breakout Session

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Day 2: Morning Breakout Session

Qualities of Strong Writing

  • Meaning
  • Organization/Structure
  • Genre
  • Detail
  • Voice
  • Conventions

The Sriracha Argument for Immigration

Written by David Sax, Published March 27, 2017 in The New Yorker

a teen just trying to figure it out

TED Talk by Tavi Gevinson, March 2012.

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Taking Mitey Mites Has Changed Me

Student Writing from Jericho Elementary, Vermont

Day 2: Afternoon Breakout Session

Strategies for Generating Opinions and Arguments

  • If it Could Go on Facebook, You Can Jot it in a

Notebook (p. 120)

  • Ask Yourself Questions, Then Answer Them (p.

121)

  • Craft a Thesis (p. 153)

Planning and Drafting

  • Problem-Solution Structure

for Persuasive Writing (p.197)

  • Writing Across Pages
  • Flash-Drafting a Strong

Argument

  • Use Imagery to MAke a Fact

Come Alive (p. 246)

(This would not be considered a strong argument, obvs.)

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Keep in touch!

Twitter @BethMooreSchool Blog: www.twowritingteachers.org Website: elizabeth-moore.com Email: beth@elizabethmoore.work