Tim N Taylor Linda Copeland Introductions About Us Tim Director of Comp at EIU Linda Assistant Professor of English at St Louis CC The State of Developmental Reading amp Writing Courses ID: 487698
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Teaching Reading & Writing in an Age of Acceleration
Tim N. Taylor
Linda CopelandSlide2
Introductions: About Us
Tim
Director of Comp at EIU
LindaAssistant Professor of English at St. Louis CC Slide3
The State of Developmental Reading & Writing Courses
Developmental Reading
Developmental Writing
Studio Courses
Stretch ProgramsAccelerated Learning Courses, Co-
Req
Programs
Integrated Reading-Writing CoursesSlide4
The Outside Pressures
State Government
Upper Administration
Common Core StandardsSlide5
The Pressures Within Our Classrooms
“Why am I in this course?”
“How does this matter? I’m not going to have to write in my job.”
“I’ve always been a bad writer.”“I don’t like writing.”
“I do my best writing under pressure.” “It was good.” [he didn’t do the reading]“Why do I have to do all this reading?”Slide6
One Way to Counter Those Attitudes & Notions
Use a reading and writing tool to
guide
and slow students down. Slide7
Read, Analyze, and Vote
Read these sample housing advertisements.
Using the
I
DEA
S
template, analyze and vote for which ad is the strongest and why. Slide8
Interest
How does the ad try to capture readers’ attention?
Details
Does the writer use concrete details to bring drama and clarity to the ad?
Explanation
What facts and examples work to persuade the readers?
Audience
What choices in language, details and explanation show consideration of the audience?
Style
How does the writer use word choice, sentence variety, and level of formality to make the ad appealing? Slide9
Realtor A
4321 Street Sunnyvale $
xxx,xxx
Quick! Stop the car and take a look! Located in the Sunnyvale Retirement Community on a quiet cul
-du-sac, this freshly painted, clean ranch is in great move-in condition. The large eat-in kitchen has been updated with new appliances. For entertaining, there is a spacious dining room area that opens up into the formal living room. You will love the three spacious, newly carpeted bedrooms, each with its own updated bathroom. The master bedroom is majestic with vaulted ceilings and lovely French doors that open out to the back courtyard with its meticulous landscaping. Don’t wait to see this fantastic home in a great neighborhood! Slide10
Realtor B
4321 Street Sunnyvale $
xxx,xxx
Retirement living is easy in this immaculate contemporary ranch home. The home features three spacious bedrooms, two luxurious bathrooms, and a stylish kitchen that flows through to the dining room. On cold winter evenings gather around the cozy warmth of the fireplace in the formal living room. Enjoy summer bar-b-
ques on the Arcadia stone patio of your private courtyard with its professionally landscaped flower beds. This home is ideally located on a tranquil cul-de-sac in the highly desirable Sunnyvale Retirement Community, conveniently close to shops, restaurants, and entertainment. Live the retirement you have always dreamed in this beautiful home in a premier community.Slide11
Realtor C
4321 Street Sunnyvale $
xxx,xxx
This delightful brick ranch with an updated kitchen, three roomy bedrooms and two full baths is located in the desirable Sunnyvale Retirement Community. Enjoy all the benefits of this gated community with its pool, community center, and easy access to shopping, restaurants, and theaters. Entertain friends in the home’s spacious formal living room or outside in your private courtyard. The low maintenance yard has been professionally landscaped. The oversized garage has an extra storage area. The seller is motivated, so don’t wait, or you may lose your opportunity to experience comfortable and carefree living at an affordable price.Slide12
Who Gets the Sale?
Realtor A
Realtor B
Realtor C
Strengths
WeaknessesSlide13
Now Write ~ Not Really
Use the
I
DE
AS tool to generate
ad copy.
A real estate firm has recently hired you as an advertising copywriter. Your first assignment is to write a one-paragraph advertisement for this home, which will be featured in a high-end real estate magazine. This home is in a new, upscale neighborhood of single-family homes in a good school district. Your target audience is young families. Keep IDEAS in mind as you write this paragraph.Slide14
Interest
How will I capture readers’ attention?
Details
What concrete details will bring drama and clarity to the ad?
Explanation
What facts and examples will persuade the readers?
Audience
What details and explanation do my readers need? What level of formality do they expect?
Style
How can I improve word choice, sentence variety, and the level of formality to make the ad more appealing? Slide15
Reading & Writing an Ad
C
onnections students can make in exercises like this?
Key: Use a reading and writing tool. Slide16
How to Become
a Successful Writer & Reader?Slide17
Research for Persuasion
Dweck
on Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
Duckworth and Tough on GritSlide18
Dweck’s Findings
“People may start with different temperaments and aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way” (5). Slide19
Dweck’s Findings
“This
growth mindset
is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts” (7). Slide20
Dweck’s Findings
“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of a growth mindset. This is a mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives” (7). Slide21
Dweck’s Findings
“You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They’re powerful beliefs, but they’re just something in your mind, and you can change your mind” (16). Slide22
The Upshot from Dweck
“Skills and achievement come through
commitment
and effort” (179). Slide23
Angela Duckworth’s Research
Via various research studies, she’s concluded that self-discipline is likely to trump IQ and that “grit” is key to long-term success.
In other words, strength of
character
means a lot. Slide24
Tough’s How Children Succeed
Duckworth and others’ research about motivation and “character” is now reaching a wider audience through Paul Tough’s
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
. Slide25
Traits Some Researchers Have Settled On
Tough provides seven character traits that are “likely to predict life satisfaction and high achievement” (76):
Grit
Self-ControlZest
Social IntelligenceGratitudeOptimism CuriositySlide26
The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
Curiosity
– the desire to know more about the world.
Openness
– the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world. Slide27
The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
Engagement
– a sense of investment and involvement in learning.
Creativity – the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas. Slide28
The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
Persistence
– the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.
Responsibility
– the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and othersSlide29
The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
Flexibility
– the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands
Metacognition
– the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge. Slide30
Keys for
Writing and Critical Reading
A Growth Mindset
Hard Work
DisciplineThey have to care.Slide31
Strategies & Tactics To Consider
“
We must teach students how to read model texts in ways that will inform the eventual writing that they will
do and teach them to read in ways that help them to develop their understand of writerly strategies and techniques and that help them to identify genre conventions so they are better prepared to write in those genres” (Bunn 512). Slide32
Strategies & Tactics To Consider
Course design is key:
“
Design a course in which reading and writing assignments build upon and reinforce each other” (Bunn 512). Slide33
Strategies & Tactics To Consider
Use a reading and writing tool in a consistent way. Slide34
Strategies & Tactics To Consider
Tie writing and reading to their
P
rofessional, Personal, and C
ivic lives. Slide35
Strategies & Tactics To Consider
Have students consistently
practice metacognition
—thinking about their thinking, their rhetorical moves, and the transfer value of their writing. Slide36
Other Strategies to Consider
Reader’s Guides
KWL Tool
Write, Pair, ShareBring Their Own Discussion QuestionsPresenter-Respondent FormatDiscussion LeadersIn-class writingSlide37
Web
S
earches
of Note:YouTube: Carol Dweck
Duckworth’s “Grit Scale”YouTube: RSA Animate – DriveSlide38
Works Cited
Beaufort, Anne.
College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for
University Writing Instruction. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2007.
Print. Bunn, Michael. “Motivation and Connection: Teaching Reading (and Writing) in the Composition
Classroom
.”
College Composition and Communication
64.3 (2013): 496-516. Print.
Council of Writing Program Administrators, National Council of
Teachers
of English, and The National
Writing
Project.
Framework
for Success in Postsecondary Writing
. Jan. 2011.
Web
. 5 Feb. 2011.
Duckworth, Angela A., Christopher Peterson, Michael D.
Matthews
, and Dennis R. Kelly. “
Grit Perseverance
and
Passion
for Long-Term Goals.”
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
92.6 (2007):
1087-1101
. Print.Slide39
Works Cited
Duckworth, Angela L and Martin E. P. Seligman. “Self-Discipline
Outdoes
IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents.”
Psychological Science 16.12 (2005): 939-44. Print. Dweck, Carol S.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
. New York:
Ballantine, 2006. Print. Shipka
, Jody.
Toward a Composition Made Whole
. Pittsburgh: U of
Pittsburgh
P, 2011. Print.
Sullivan, Patrick. “‘A Lifelong Aversion to Writing’: What If Writing
Courses
Emphasized Motivation?”
Teaching
English in the
Two-Year
College
39.2 (2011): 118-140. Print.
Tough, Paul.
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden
Power
of Character
. New
York: Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt,
2012
. Print.