iEARN Professional Development Program                         

Workshop Title: Write On!!!

Target Professionals: English Language; English Literature and Literacy teachers, Curriculum Coordinators and Head of the English Departments.

Time: 6 Hours session from 9:00am-3:00pm

Abstract:

"When we encourage young children to think of themselves as writers, their achievement soars"

 (Katie Wood Ray-2004)

A comprehensive writing curriculum leads students over a period of time to experience different forms and styles of writing. Authentic writing projects and activities can be instrumental for students to discover their potential of writing for discovering their own selves and bringing about a social change. The wide range of iEARN online collaborative projects presents great possibilities for students to develop skills and understanding required for mastering different forms of writing. This workshop introduces the different domains of writing including story, narrative, persuasive and descriptive writings and how iEARN projects can be integrated to teach them. Teachers will also get an opportunity to explore a list of graded possible writing topics and set up a writing syllabus for their classes for each semester of the academic year.

Each participant will also get a complete set of resource kit and CD; these are specially designed to help teachers teaching various genre of writing through iEARN projects The kit and CD contains a great collection of copiable masters, worksheets for pre writing activities, writing templates and writing prompts.

Topics Focused:

- Domains of writing

- Writing process

- Pre Writing techniques

- Writing prompts and templates

- Using Rubrics for evaluating writing

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