1. Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington Teachers are the best teachers of teachers. Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.

3. Student write more when their teachers write, too.

4. Low-stakes vs high stakes What are the characteristics of high-stakes writing? How about low stakes writing?

5. What is an essay, anyway? An analytical or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view Something resembling a composition (photographic)

6. Why write? Well, you can put more things on paper then what you can say out loud. Even to a friend. I’ve said more things to a piece of paper than I would ever say to my friend. Eighth grade student The Journal Book

7. Free Writing

8. The Power of Listing

9. The List of Lists

10. A sixth grader’s list

11. What grade is this student in?

12. Janine’s Double List

14. Free write after List #2

16. Clustering/ Webbing Another idea Starting idea Related idea Another idea

17. Me-Maps

18. Another Me-map

19. One response to “space”

20. Another view of sapce

22. Another form of Me-map

23. Writing to an Audience Start small – have the audience be one person. Dialogue Journals Buddy Journals

24. Dialogue Journal

25. Buddy Journal

26. Gina and Stephanie

27. Close Observation

28. From a fifth grader’s science journal

29. Show, Don’t Tell

30. Taxonomy Classification, especially of plants and animals An orderly way to concurrently collect and classify information

31. Use your senses I see I hear I smell I touch I taste

32. And don’t forget I think I feel I remember I know

33. Revising – WOWS and WONDERS Share work with a writers group or a partner: WOW -- I like, I think, I felt WONDER -- I wonder

34. Recursive Revision Revision means -- To see again.

35. Recursive Revision Revision tricks -- let the piece rest while you rest -- check for “was, is, are, were, etc.” Join, or create, a writers group Write a one-sentence premise

36. Editing Editing can mean looking for usage and punctuation errors. Editing can mean reading it with your specific audience in mind. This can lead back to revision. State the “premise” in one sentence Read it aloud Read it backwards.

37. Publicare – make it public Anthology Read around Authors chair Authors café Send it to an agent or publciation Other?

38. Celebrate