Super Saturday
Writing Conference

SECRET SITE

SUPER SATURDAY RESOURCES

Click below to access “Secret Site” pages and individual session handouts.

THE ARGUMENT FOR TEACHING WRITING

• Keynote  [HANDOUT]

PLAN & ORGANIZE

• Honor the most important “F” in class—Feedback [HANDOUT]
• Teach developmentally appropriate writing all year (Grades K-2, ELL) [HANDOUT]
• Collaborate & engage while social distancing [HANDOUT]
• Plan the year of writing units (Grades 2-12) [HANDOUT]
• Convert the writer’s workshop from in-person to virtual [HANDOUT]

LESSON ESSENTIALS

• Target the Six Traits within your daily writing instruction [HANDOUT]
• Target the essential skills per writing unit [HANDOUT]
• Deliver best-practice lessons regardless of your classroom setting [HANDOUT]
• Support writers at home & school with procedural lessons [HANDOUT]
• Maximize the I do component of every lesson [HANDOUT]

WRITE ABOUT THE TEXT

• Advance from retelling to summarizing to main idea [HANDOUT]
• Organize text details in order to write [HANDOUT]
• Summarize content-area information [HANDOUT]
• Note & annotate reader thoughts [HANDOUT]
• Target opinion-based reading responses in K-2 [HANDOUT]

WRITE BEYOND THE TEXT

• Make an inference in 5 steps [HANDOUT]
• Convey inferences in constructed responses [HANDOUT]
• Synthesize ideas across texts [HANDOUT]
• Raise the rigor from short to long reading responses [HANDOUT]
• Compare ideas & concepts across texts [HANDOUT]

EVIDENCE-BASED WRITING

• Write arguments based on textual evidence [HANDOUT]
• Recognize evidence in videos and visuals [HANDOUT]
• Troubleshoot the 4 common evidence errors [HANDOUT]
• Incorporate textual evidence in small-group guided writing [HANDOUT]
• Achieve a blend of evidence and elaboration [HANDOUT]

THE ARGUMENT FOR TEACHING WRITING

• Closing  [HANDOUT]