1. Quick Write 1. List things you write just for yourself.
2. List things you write for someone else,
but you don't care if there's a mistake.
3. List things you write for someone else,
and you care if there's a mistake.

2. Mr. Ryan Batsie & Ms. Danielle Valenilla
The "Write" Audience
Audience Appreciation & Awareness in Middle & Secondary Classrooms
Mr. Ryan Batsie & Ms. Danielle Valenilla

3. What do you think? How do we motivate our students to write?
How do we provide our students with authentic writing experiences?
How do we move away from the "audience of one" (AKA you, the teacher) mentality?

4. Research Gallagher (2006) Teaching Adolescent Writers
Atwell (2002) Lessons that change writers
Maxwell, Allyn and Bacon (1996) Writing
Across the Curriculum

5. Our Theory
There are three levels of audience that middle and secondary teachers should consider as they plan instruction.

7. How much should we write?
Level 1 Audience (__% of class writing)
Writing for YOURSELF
Level 2 Audience (__% of class writing)
Writing for ANOTHER
Level 3 Audience (__% of class writing)
Writing for ANYONE

8. What Level 1 Looks Like Personal notes Quick-writes ALL 1st drafts
Lists of ALL kinds
Brainstorming
Asking Questions
ALL Journal Writing
Doodling

10. Benefits of Writing for YOURSELF
Creates autonomy for students
Allows them verbal freedom (slang, etc.)
Helps generate ideas & develop fluency
Helps develop a sense of writer's integrity/honesty
No pressure
Self-centered (developmental needs)

11. What Level 2 Looks Like 2nd Drafts Homework Reaction Papers
Special Occasion Cards
Writing events on a calendar
Personal Letters
Text messages
Tweeting
Facebooking

12. EXIT SLIPS >>

13. Benefits of Writing for ANOTHER
Creates accountability for students
Continues to allow them verbal freedom (slang, etc.)
Helps solidify ideas & develop fluency
Helps writer question their sense of writer's integrity/honesty
Low pressure to create meaning for another
Interactive (developmental needs)

15. What Level 3 Looks Like Final drafts Essays Job Applications
Writing Contests
Letters to the Editor
Submissions for Publication

17. Benefits of Writing for ANYONE
Creates opportunities for students to engage in authentic audiences
Impresses the importance of standard conventions for meaning
Establishes writer's commitment and stance concerning ideas
Higher pressure to create meaning for a wide array of audiences
Publication (Bragging rights) (developmental needs)

18. Follow Me: @MsValenilla
Hashtags can teach theme
#realtalk #classroomlessons #teachablemoments
Authentic writing opportunities
Revision
Conveying proper tone
Modeling different sentence structures
Modeling proper grammar

19. A Current Local Contest

21. So you're probably wondering...
HOW DO I DO
THIS IN MY CLASSROOM?!

22. Quick-Write
Make three lists and write as many things as you can think of that apply to each list.
List 1: The Things I Write for Only Me
List 2: The Things I Write for a Few to See
List 3: The Things I Write for a Large Audience to See

23. The Write Audience in the Classroom
How does this look in a real classroom?
How does a teacher plan for real audiences?
What does a student example look like?

24. Lead by example

25. Planning Templates Standard Big Question Meaningful Writing
Aligned Conventions
Mentor Text
Authentic Audience
Writing
Why do you like or dislike a book?
Amazon Book Review
Spelling
Amazon Book Reviews
Amazon website viewers
Writing Medium
Supplies
Audience
Amazon Book Review
Access to Amazon account (parent’s or own)
Computer with Internet access
Word processing program
Reading book
Amazon alternative template
Parent permission letter
Amazon website viewers

26. Planning Templates Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri.
Introduce Amazon Book Review
Pass out parent permission letter
Read Amazon Book Reviews
Introduce Book Review Rubric
Outline Book Reviews
Draft Book Reviews
Publish book reviews to our class blog

27. Online Learning Environment

28. Authentic Requirements

29. Book Review Rubric

30. Book Review Rubric

31. Student Example

32. Student Example
This review is from: Winning Balance: What I've Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams (Hardcover)
When I first saw this book on a shelf at my local library I grasped it and knew I had to get it. Shawn Johnson and other gymnasts have always interested me, never being a gymnast myself it was exhilarating to read this book and live a life I have never experienced. I had never known much about Shawn Johnson before reading this book,I had seen her in commercials but I had never heard her story...

33. Student feedback

34. Now it’s your turn… What is your time frame? What are you teaching?
What are your opportunities for authentic writing?
How can you target the different audience levels?