Extra! Extra! Read All About It

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Extra! Extra! Read All About ItMotivating GT
Writers

• Is your brain on overload with all the
  information you have heard today?
• Let your mind escape.peruse a magazine of your
  choice
• If you are inclined.
• Zone out in your reading
• Share with a neighbor
• Strike up a conversation

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Extra! Extra! Read All About ItMotivating GT
Writers

• Colleen Anthony Lindsey Reinert
• Jefferson County Public Schools
• Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• 950-1050

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Kudo

• Know structures of writing, conduct research,
  create rubrics and presentation skills
• Understand Connecting students passions to
  content area of writing creates motivation
• Do Engage your students in writing focused
  around THEIR interests using multiple genres to
  create a magazine.
• Gaining tools to enhance research and student
  interest
• Make real-life connections to the genres of
  writing
• Create emphasis on rubric and self-based
  evaluation
• Provide strategies for procedures

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Research Slide Writing and the Gifted Child

• Narrowing the topic
• Passion for motivation
• Reluctant writers
• Connecting reading with Writing
• Is there enough info on topic
• How to note and cite research
• Handouts will be link to research

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Connecting to Colorado Model Content
StandardsReading and Writing

• Standard 2 Students write and speak for a
  variety of purposes
• Standard 3 Students write and speak using
  conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure,
  punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
• Standard 4 Students apply thinking skills to
  their reading, writing, speaking, listening and
  viewing.
• Standard 5 Students read to locate, select, and
  make use of relevant information from a variety
  of media, references, and technological sources.
• Colorado Content
  Standards adopted 1995

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Percolating Passion Interest Inventories

• Interest-a-lyzers/Inventories
• Exploring
• Create interest center w/newspapers and magazines
• Bring outside sourceGuest Speaker
• Field Trip
• Web Search
• Library
• Data Gathering
• Interest Inventories
• Strength Explorer
• Renzulli Learning

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So.. now what do you do with all this PASSION
and INTEREST to support writing?

• Make it interest based
• Make something they really care about
• Make sure the topic
• Has validity
• Broad enough in range to tap into sufficient
  information/resources
• Make it a
• Magazine!

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Magazine Project

• Organize format
• Research Method
• IIM Independent Investigation Method (how to do a
  successful research project) iimresearch.com
• Applying Genres of Reading and Writing
• http//langdon.estlc.com/Writing_Genre_Posters.pdf
  
• Timelines/deadlines
• Mini-lessons on each component of magazine
• Rubrics specific for components
• Presentation
• Speaking, Listening, sharing

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Magazine Unit Components

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Editorial Page
• Information Page
• Photo Page
• Human Interest Article
• Whos Who Article
• Words to Know-Glossary
• Advertisement
• Optional additions
• Book/music reviews, jokes, cartoons, puzzlers

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Rubric

• GT Distinguished/advanced
• District Writing Rubric
• Expectations
• Rubistar http//rubistar.4teachers.org/
• Self-evaluation

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Sample Evaluation

• A lot of hard work has gone into your magazine,
  now it is time to evaluate it. Using your copy
  of the Six-Trait Writing Rubric please grade
  yourself as A Advanced, P Proficient, PP
  Partially Proficient, or U Unsatisfactory for
  each of the following areas
• Ideas and Content____
• Organization____
• Voice ____
• Word Choice____
• Sentence Fluency____
• Conventions (spelling, usage, capitalization,
  punctuation, paragraphing, and grammar)____
• Appearance____
• Explain what you feel is the best part of your
  magazine and why
• What is one area that you feel you need to
  continue to work on in your writing and
  why?___________________________________
• What did you learn from this project?_____________
  __________

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Celebration

• Share magazines with others
• Comments section
• Reflection

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Sample Review/Celebration Form

• Name_____________________
• Read two magazines from our class rack. Fill out
  the following information on each magazine
• Title of Magazine______________________________
• Author_______________________________________
• Explain one fact/idea your learned form this
  magazine
• Write one or more positive comments about the
  magazine (remember these need to be specificuse
  6-Trait rubric!)

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Closure

• Review Purpose
• Questions
• Power point link
• http//gtresourceteacherjeffco.wikispaces.com/CAGT
  2009