1. Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Nancy Mullins ESL/Bilingual Programs Director Maine Department of Education January 26, 2012

2. 2 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits. You need direct instruction, templates and modeling. To ensure that the papers are cooked properly – follow the recipe.

3. 3 DIRECT INSTRUCTION If it is important, it should be intentional. Stephen Covey Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits

4. 4 EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS Providing explicit directions is NOT cheating – it is support. Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits

5. 5 Be careful what you ask for Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits

6. 6 Draw on existing communication skills - oral Speakers Speak like Listeners Listen Ill tell you three reasons why you cant stay out on a school night.

7. 7 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Writers Write like Readers Read and the Reader is Stupid

8. 8 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Writers Write Like Readers Read Readers Opinions Letter to the Editor

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10. 10 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Academic Language of an Orange

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12. 12 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits TEMPLATES

13. 13 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Color within the lines – give the lines then work on improving coloring within

14. 14 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Templates provide a technique, a constant Step-by-step Templates provide the requirements for meeting the standard

15. 15 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Discrete skills (grammar, syntax, vocabulary), sequence, transition, cloze

16. 16 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Template: They Say I Say

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18. 18 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Template: Sentence, Paragraph, Essay

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20. 20 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Template: Checklist for Paragraph for Essay

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22. 22 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits MODEL

23. 23 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Use the template in your teaching Expose them Allow them to observe others Practice, practice, practice Write every day

24. 24 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Jigsaw Expand/Collapse Group – thesis, sentence, paragraph, essay Outline

25. 25 Having the recipe to write allows for critical thinking Academic writing requires thinking – with evidence, point of view, cause/effect, conjecture-what if and social-so what. Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits

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27. 27 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Resources

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30. 30 Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits Thank you