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Many of us remember being stumped about just what it was the teacher wanted us to do in our essays about Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice. Anytime we got an assignment, we’d race to get the CliffsNotes that demystified expectations. These days, instruction that once filled secondary school classrooms has moved into the upper elementary grades, and kids are even more mystified—and more pressured, too, as writing about reading has become high stakes.
In this edWebinar, Dr. Lucy Calkins, one of the world’s foremost teachers of writing, will equip you to bring your kids along a logical cross-grade progression of instruction on writing literary essays so that you equip all your students with the skills they need to write insightful essays, including essays on characters, relationships, themes, and author’s craft.
Jess Mazzone and Katy Wischow, two co-authors of the soon-to-be-released Units of Study in Writing, will follow this work by sharing high-leverage small groups and a set of potent tools that together can help your students explore the fine points of effective essays, learning about evidence, detail, symbolism, sentence complexity, and the like.
Finally, you’ll see how all of this can help your students feel ready for the expectations of state tests. This edWebinar will be of interest to elementary teachers and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation. Learn more.
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