Kentucky Adult Educators Literacy Institute Task 4

Kentucky Adult Educators Literacy Institute
"A WebQuest Adventure in Literacy"

Writing in Reaction to Literature

You are now reading to start doing some lesson planning incorporating writing strategies This task provides you with a list of on-line and print resources (including your notes and handouts from the 3-Day Seminar in July). You are to:

Continue to build your binder of resources by visiting each, printing the materials, and categorizing them with tabbed dividers.

Use the active learning strategies you have located to plan writing lessons to go with 3 of the books from your text set. These writing lessons that prompt your students to engage in meaningful writing experiences in response to literature.

Select at least one of the pieces of literature listed above and work with either one or more adults to include this literature as part of the writing instruction.

Provide at least a one-page reflection on the experience (what worked, what didn't work, the learner's response to the literature, the learner's response to the whole reading/writing experience, etc.) along with a writing sample of learner work from this experience.

To prepare for this task, please read the following articles:

Focus on Basics - December 1999 - Using Research on Writing

Focus on Basics - December 1999 - What's Right rather than Wrong

Focus on Basics - December 1999 - The Power of Writing, the Writing of Power

What do I do for Task 4?

Write 1 lesson plan EACH for three of the books in your text set (you will submit THREE lesson plans total developed with THREE different books from the KAELI text set).

Follow these procedures to construct your lessons:

Select and read three books from your text set noting the following questions by completing the data response sheet located HERE.
        This is an informal and OPTIONAL pre-planning form for your notes. You do NOT have to type this page, nor do you need to turn it in to your instructor.

    (NOTE: The resource table below links to a multitude of ideas for pre/during/post strategies.)
Click here to develop "fill-in-the-space lesson plans" that describe the active strategies you would use as you work with adult learners to ensure deep comprehension of each book.
TEACH at least ONE of the lesson plans and fill in the "reflection" section of the lesson plan form.

NOTE:

WKU students may submit these materials:

Electronically through Blackboard (Drop Box) - Microsoft WORD documents ONLY

Electronically by email attachment (pamela.petty@wku.edu) - Microsoft WORD documents ONLY
Cannot open WordPerfect, WORKS, etc.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant	Writing Adventures	The Five Paragraph Essay
Thesaurus.com	Principles of Composition	Vocabulary.com
Enthusiasm is All Right	Writing Process	The Academy
Guide to Grammar and Writing	Word Game of the Day
Writing Prompts/Journal Topics	Word Find Puzzles	Homonyms
	Anagrams	Spell Check
Five Paragraph Essay	Country Reports (research site for all countries around the world)

The Graphic Organizer	Teachervision.com Graphic Organizers	Introduction to Teaching Strategies
Graphic Organizers	Graphic Organizers	Graphic Organizers
Brainstorming Activities	Teach-nology Graphic Organizers	Elementary Graphic Organizers
The Amazing Picture Machine (this is a site for your to find images/photos for handouts/lessons)	Graphic Organizers that Support Specific Thinking Skills	Secondary Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers	Graphic Organizers and Rubrics	Graphic Organizers

NOTE: The resources listed in the table above would make wonderful materials to add to the resource binder that you started at the 3-Day Seminar in July.





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	Electronically through Blackboard (Drop Box) - Microsoft WORD documents ONLY
	Electronically by email attachment (pamela.petty@wku.edu) - Microsoft WORD documents ONLY Cannot open WordPerfect, WORKS, etc.