Best-of-Smekens Writing Conference:
Writing Remix 2019

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Six-Traits Essentials | Grammar & Conventions | Writing About Reading

Modes & Genres | Writer’s Workshop Management | Text-Based Responses

Writing About Reading

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Session 1: Generate 4 Types of Narratives in Response to Reading
Session 2: Annotate & Note-Take in Preparation for Writing
Session 3: Write After-Reading Summaries in the Content Areas
Session 4: Generate Opinion-Based Reading Responses
Session 5: Cultivate Compare-Contrast Writing Skills

SESSION 1

Generate 4 Types of Narratives in Response to Reading

Define the shape of stories

Plot Exposition Map
Ride the Story Plot

Continue the story following a similar plot

Example

Rewrite the story from a different perspective

Example

After the Fall for Continue the Story
We Forgot Brock for Insert the Missing Page

Insert a missing part or page.

Example

Rewrite the same basic plot

Write fiction based on fact.

Example

Emily Opell (Boonville Middle School) had her students integrate factual information about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into their own narrative stories. Check out the various pieces her sixth graders published on this website: https://sites.google.com/warrick.k12.in.us/thegreatpacificgarbagepatch/home