2. WriteToLearn Emerging Technology Meets Miss. Adams’ 2 nd Grade

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4. What is Write to Learn?

5. What is WriteToLearn WriteToLearn offers students plenty of practice with reading comprehension and summary writing skills, in addition to scoring essays. Incorporates a range of topics. Teachers can easily choose from among 50-plus essay assignments included with the program by selecting a grade level from 4-12, subject area, and writing genre; in addition, the engine will evaluate students' drafts according to major criteria of content, style, and mechanics, with additional comments and scores given for spelling, redundancy, and grammar.

6. Pros and Cons

7. Pros and Cons Pros and Cons Pros Reads and evaluates content bundled with program; identifies plagiarism and excessive copying. Cons Content selection is thin; smaller selection of prompts than other programs, and teachers cannot design their own; no peer review features.

8. Does it Work?

9. Does it Work? Great Practice! With this program students begin tackling grammar, spelling, and punctuation, which frees classroom time for more creative, complex writing tasks. Gives teacher the opportunity to observe the individual and classrooms writing performance. Great practice for high stakes testing!

10. Classroom Usage

11. Classroom Usage Will use during Writing Workshop. Students may practice during computers. Approximate usage, 2 hours and 30 minutes.

12. Cost?

13. Per Student Annually

14. Citations

15. Citations Kennedy, Kristen. “Write on Time”. 15, November 2006. http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArt icle.jhtml?articleID=193700228 http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArt icle.jhtml?articleID=193700228 http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArt icle.jhtml?articleID=193700228

16. Thank You!