What you need to bring:

• 2 personal artifacts.  A personal artifact is an item that holds some personal value to you.  It might be a picture, medal, letter, book so something completely different.  It is up to you.

• pen or pencil

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Agenda

(8:45 am -12:00 am)

 

Part 1: The Writing Revolution Overview and Basics

• intro to Writing Revolution

• 3 elements that we need to add to the TWR system

• cognitive overload factor

• Shawna models how to embed TWR mini-lessons into your lessons

• TWR mini lesson: kernel sentences and sentence fragments

• TWR mini lesson: BBS: because, but, so

           

Break: 15 Minutes

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Part 2: Experiencing The Writing Revolution Lessons from a Student's Perspective

• mini-lessons

• free writing activity

• TWR BBS sheet to scaffold

• TWR mini lesson: appositives

• personal artifacts: for field guides 

• TWR mini lesson: 5W sentence summary

• TWR resources

• TWR mini lesson: types of sentences

• TWR mini lesson: note taking

         

Materials used in this workshop

• Link to Shawna's presentation​​​

• download handouts #1

• download handouts #2

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Other Writing Revolution Resources

• Official Resources from The Writing Revolution website

• Awesome TWR Resource bank from Sask. DLC

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