Writing to the Prompt: Preparing Your Students for I-STEP, Jan. 21

Teaching students to be effective writers demands that we help them navigate the requirements of standardized test-taking. But we teachers do not always feel as if we know what advice and guidance to give our students. What can we do to help them feel confident that they have something to write about as they face that ISTEP+ prompt? How can we help them turn out a polished piece of writing within the fifty-minute time limit?

Join Susan Darling, veteran teacher and IWP workshop facilitator, to learn more about how student responses are scored using the Indiana's ELA Rubric, to practice scoring along with your colleagues, and to examine the problem of writing for an unknown reader/grader. These same concepts and activities are also easily adapted for the high school ECA and for SAT preparation.

Spend three hours with Susan in order to take home an especially timely unit on Writing to a Prompt that you can use over the next few weeks to prepare your students to shine on the writing portion of the 2011 ISTEP+ test that begins on February 28. In fact, invite a colleague who can implement this unit right along with you.

Writing to the Prompt: Preparing Your Students for I-STEP
January 21, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

More info: iwp.iweb.bsu.edu/profdev/saturday.htm