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How MY Access! Supports Step Up to Writing Strategies

By qualtic
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Lesson Plan: Prewriting, Lesson Plan: Revising Comments Off

Instructors who use Step Up to Writing (SUTW) strategies have an ally in Vantage Learning programs. Instructional tools such as color coding, word lists, outlines, and examples are embedded in both MY Access! and Step up to Writing. Overall, the Vantage Learning Literacy Solution contains many features and tools for process writing that can be used in conjunction with SUTW elements such as:

Pre-Writing Outlines. MY Access! interactive and printable graphic organizers help students develop and plan their ideas. Vantage Learning outlines let students work step-by-step to create interesting and organized essays, but they also are easily adapted to the color-coding or framing strategies that SUTW supports. These critical thinking tools can be saved or printed through MY Access! so teachers can evaluate not only the final draft, but all parts of the writing process. For an example of a useful Vantage Learning graphic organizer, see the Organizing Your Essay outline.

Color-coding: Both Step Up to Writing and MY Access! help students plan, organize and revise through the use of color-coding. This strategy, an essential component of MY Tutor feedback for each trait guides students to color-code words, sentences or whole paragraphs to make sense of their writing. Either MY Access! or SUTW color coding standards can be used in revision plans where students think about goals and strategies for revision.

Sentence and Paragraph Building: Exercises and feedback in MY Access! help students plan and clarify their ideas just as with Step Up To Writing. These tools highlight the importance of preparation as a way for students to become more confident, proficient writers. For example, the “Thesis Builder” Handout assists writers who are creating main ideas or thesis statements.

Consider how this MY Tutor feedback guides students to build more effective

paragraphs:
• Highlight, in green, the details in your essay. Details are those words that answer the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how.
and sentences:
• Underline the words or phrases you used too many times and replace them with synonyms (words that mean the same) or more precise words. Use the Word Bank or thesaurus to help you!

Word Lists - MY Access! provides multiple types of word lists, including options for vivid verbs, awesome adjectives and transient transitional devices as a way for writers to improve their sentence structure and overall clarity. These word banks apply to different patterns of development and pinpoint different sections of the essay. For example, transitional phrases for conclusion paragraphs are available in “Transient Transitions.” Furthermore, Vantage Learning’s multilingual visual thesaurus, Lexipedia presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web to support all types of learners.

And with student models available for all Intellimetric prompts in all genres, students and teachers have access to a large variety of student writing that can be used for any writing lesson. For those using the Step up to Writing with MY Access!, we would love to hear your comments about how you have used Vantage Learning Literacy Solutions to support Step Up to Writing.

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What Makes a Good Story? Tips for Young Authors by Aaron Shepard

By jfallon
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Author Series: Tips for Young Writers No Comments

This installment in our Author Series comes from Aaron Shepard, the award-winning author of One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!, The Sea King’s Daughter, The Baker’s Dozen, The Legend of Lightning Larry, and many more children’s books from publishers large and small. His stories have also appeared often in Cricket magazine. Check out his website at http://www.aaronshep.com/ to get loads of free treats and resources for teachers, librarians, storytellers, children’s authors, parents, kids, and more. You’ll also find info on Aaron, his books, and his author visits.

Good writers often break rules—but they know they’re doing it! Here are some good rules to know. (more…)

Author Series: Interview with Jerry Spinelli

By Rachel Loeper
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Author Series: Interviews No Comments

SpinelliWhen did you decide to become a writer, and what steps did you take from there?

When I got out of graduate school and was for the first time writing on my own with nobody telling me to, not part of an assignment, I was getting no grade. So I was a writer. What I was not was a published writer, and yes, it was discouraging. Some folks tend to think that in situations like that you need a thick skin and you don’t really feel the pain of it. But that’s not really the case. At least, it wasn’t for me. It was very painful. Every time I got a rejection slip, I wanted to put my head in the oven. But you keep plodding along, and you discover that in a couple of days, the sun continues to rise every morning. And you put your manuscript in a new mailing, and you put on the postage, and you send it out to one more place. If you try every place with your first book and that doesn’t work, you write a second book. That’s how it went for the better part of fifteen or twenty years. (more…)

Lesson Plan: Character Development in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

By qualtic
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans: Literary No Comments

Duration: 2 class periods of 45-50 minutes

Printable: MY Access! Lesson Plan : Character Development in A Christmas Carol

By reading how writers have analyzed Scrooge’s responses to events, students can generate their own ideas and begin evaluating their own analysis of how Scrooge responds to challenges. (more…)

“Favorite Person” Lesson Plan, Middle School (6-8), Expository Writing

By Rachel Loeper
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Author Series: Interviews, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans: Expository No Comments

MY Access! LogoDuration: 2 class periods of 45-55 minutes
Adaptation: Upper Elementary (4-5), “A Person You Admire” Prompt, Expository Writing
Printable: “Favorite Person” Lesson Plan, Middle School (6-8), Expository Writing

Favorite Person Prompt:

We all have a favorite person, someone who we like or respect more than anyone else. Think about the person in your life you consider your favorite. What is this person like? What does this person do to make him or her your favorite?
Write an essay about this person explaining what he or she is like and the things that he or she does that makes him or her so special to you. (more…)

Author Series: Interview with Allison Whittenberg

By Rachel Loeper
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Author Series: Interviews No Comments

Whittenberg PictureWhat made you decide to be an author, and at what stage in your life were you when you made that decision?

I wanted to be a dancer when I was younger, but I couldn’t major in that in college. I always liked reading, so I thought of English – you get to read a lot of books! This brought me into some writing classes, and at that point I got bitten by the bug. I started out with poetry, since you didn’t have to fill up the page with poetry. I then moved to writing plays because it is mostly dialogue driven and is very, very natural. Then I ended up with young adult novels. That was my progression.

You indicated that reading played a role in your becoming a writer, what role did reading play in your youth?

I think it was just someone to relate to. I liked characters that were very different from me, that lived in different parts of the country, that went on different adventures; it broke a lot of barriers for me. I was a middle child, and you’re always looking to be heard and to be understood. Reading was very appealing to me for that reason, plus I lived two blocks from the library, so I went through a lot of books as a young person, pretty effortlessly.

As a Young Writer (1:44) (more…)

How to Write a Book Review - by Adora Svitak

By jfallon
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Writing can be about anything – including someone else’s writing! This post by Adora Svitak focuses on how to write a book review – including how it differs from a book report.

Adora Svitak is an American child prodigy and internationally published author, known for her essays, stories, poems, blogs, and full-length books. Her book, Flying Fingers describes Adora’s abiding love of language and writing and contains tips and hints for other aspiring writers. In 2005, at the age of 7, Adora began writing blogs and keeping an online journal, where she comments on matters of both international significance and subjects of personal interest. Since Nov, 2005 Adora has been leveraging her talent and fame to promote literacy and interest in reading and writing. She has lectured before large audiences of both students and adults around the world.

Adora is also a user of MY Access!® Home Edition. You can see her talk about using My Access! here.

Learn more about Adora and her work on her website at http://www.adorasvitak.com/

Here are some tips on how to write a book review:

1.) Be sure to include essential information. Essential information includes things like author’s name, title of the book, etc. Give your reader essential information before launching right into your in-depth views on the book. It’s confusing to read a book review when you don’t know the book being reviewed. However, you probably don’t just want to say, “The title of the book is _____ and the author is ______ .” (more…)

The Giver Lesson Plan, Middle School (6-8), Literary Writing

By Rachel Loeper
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Author Series: Interviews, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plan: Prewriting, Lesson Plans: Literary No Comments

MY Access! LogoDuration: 3 class periods of 45-55 Minutes
Printable: The Giver Lesson Plan (PDF)

The Giver by Lois Lowry Intellimetric Prompt:

After experiencing the feeling of love from the Giver and his memories, Jonas thought about the way life must have been when there was love and realized it was probably a “dangerous way to live.” Think about what Jonas meant. What was “dangerous” about that kind of life, and what was a “safe” life like? What were the advantages and disadvantages of each choice? (more…)

Author Series: Interview with Lois Lowry

By Rachel Loeper
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Lois LowryWhat made you decide to be an author, and at what stage in your life were you when you made that decision?

Well, there are probably two different questions in there, and one is “author,” and the other is “children’s author.” For me that was two different decisions. I wanted to be an author or a writer since I was a child. It’s what I always did best, what I loved best. I went to college and majored in writing. But I married young and had children young, so everything got deferred. When I did turn my attention back to it, I was then in my thirties and I was writing for adults. It was a request from a children’s book editor that I write a book for young people that made me turn my attention in that direction. Then, it was the reaction to that book, A Summer to Die, my first novel for young adults. The reaction from young readers made me become aware of the importance of literature for young people, and so gradually, I turned my attention entirely to writing for kids.

Do you ever look back and wonder “What if?”

Do any of us not do that? There was no “what if” for me in terms of becoming a writer. There was nothing else I wanted to do. The only thing I suppose I look back on is, “What if I hadn’t dropped out of college and married at age 19?” That seems to me now a foolish thing to have done. On the other hand I have grown children and grandchildren, and I wouldn’t have those if I hadn’t done what I did. So I think we make our decisions, sometimes they’re foolish, but most often they turn out to be the right ones at the time. (more…)

“Advice to a Candidate” Lesson Plan, High School (9-12), Expository Writing

By Rachel Loeper
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Current Events, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plan: Revising, Lesson Plans: Expository No Comments

MA LogoDuration: 3 class periods of 45-55 minutes
Printable: “Advice to a Candidate” Lesson Plan (PDF)

Advice to a Presidential Candidate Prompt:

As the U.S. Presidential election season heats up, the voices of America’s diverse citizenry cry out, expressing the people’s needs, opinions, and visions for the future.  In the midst of all these competing voices, the Presidential candidates have to carefully consider what they say in return.  Imagine that you have the opportunity to speak privately to the candidate of your choice before he or she makes an important speech.  What would you tell him or her to say to America? (more…)