1. 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?

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

4. 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?

6. 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 Quick-Write

7. Lead by example

8. Current Lesson/Unit Standard(s) covered Thought- provoking reading(s) Meaningful Writing Aligned Conventions Authentic Audience Critical Reading Reading Literature & Writing And Then There Were None Mock trial preparations Quotation marks Peers as trial participants, teacher as judge, and community members as jurors Planning Template

9. 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

10. Planning Templates StandardBig Question Meaningful Writing Aligned Conventions Mentor TextAuthentic Audience WritingWhy do you like or dislike a book? Amazon Book Review SpellingAmazon Book Reviews Amazon website viewers Writing Medium SuppliesAudience 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

11. Online Learning Environment

12. Authentic Requirements

13. Book Review Rubric

15. Student Example

16. 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...

17. Student feedback

18. Now it’s your turn… What is your time frame? What are you teaching? What are your opportunities for authentic writing?