Idea Development and Support

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Idea Development and Support
Summer Cluster Leader Training 2006
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Guiding Questions for this session Idea
Development

• What is the difference between idea development
  and support?
• What are some common strategies of idea
  development?
• How can we help our students understand and
  include idea development and support in their
  writing?
• How can we teach students that idea development
  and support should center around a focused
  purpose?

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Guiding Question

• What is the difference between idea development
  and support?

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What is idea development?

• Idea development reveals the writers knowledge,
  thinking and understanding about his or her
  topic, controlling idea or experiences.

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What is support?

• Support contributes to the development of writing
  and relates directly to the writers topic,
  controlling idea or experiences.

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• Idea Development Flow Chart

Purpose
Idea Development
Details
Support
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Guiding Question

• What are some common strategies of idea
  development and support?

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Common Strategies for Teaching Idea Development
and Support

• Idea Development
• Claims
• Main Point
• Request
• Analysis
• Reasoning

• Support
• Facts and Statistics
• Charts and Graphs
• Predictions
• Dialogue
• Stories
• Examples

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• Purpose
• A. Idea
• 1. Support/details
• 2. Support/details
• B. Idea
• 1. Support/details
• 2. Support/details

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Guiding Question

• How can we help students understand and include
  idea development and support in their writing?

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Step 1

• Teacher gathers a variety of student work and/or
  published text that are effective examples of
  idea development and support.
• Look for examples of different forms of writing.
• Look for a variety of idea development and
  support strategies.

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Step 2

• Teacher models identifying the idea development
  and support on a form of writing.
• Use transparency to model
• Copy of writing for students
• Color code idea development and support to
  identify

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Step 3

• Teacher provides additional practice of
  identifying idea development and support.
• Individually or Small Groups
• Usage of same coding system as in step 2
• Share results as a whole group with discussion

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Step 4

• Teacher models adding idea development and
  support to a single piece of writing.
• Focus on one or two idea development strategies
  to add to the writing.
• Have a poster or handout with a list of
  strategies to reference

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Guiding Question

• How can we teach students that idea
  development/support should center around a
  focused purpose?

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Step 5

• The student revises a piece of their writing to
  add idea development and support.
• Student may work with a whole piece of writing or
  just a paragraph
• Offer guidance to help students be successful at
  their first attempt.

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Communication

• Talk with other cluster leaders
• Talk with teachers in your building
• Check on resources
• Book study

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KDE Writing Consultants

• Depeka Croft
• Elementary Writing Consultant
• Depeka.Croft_at_education.ky.gov
• Dena Cole
• Middle School Writing Consultant
• Dena.Cole_at_education.ky.gov