Searching "people
who don't write"
http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/tvent/lat_patr...
search for "kill me
now"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/dcp...
these sites are not
particularly good, but it's all I got
from my searching. Searching on the internet is terrible.
Dr. Wahlstrom,
I have been considering
using the question how much grammar
is necessary to enable
middle school students to become
better writers? According to some research, grammar does
not help make students better
writers, so why do schools
emphasize grammar
lessons? Is grammar being taught because
it always has been or is
there a real need for lessons?
Where (in writing), when
(at what level), and how
(diagramming sentences,
labeling parts of speech . . .) much
grammar do teachers need
to teach students to enable the
students to become
better writers?
One web site I found that I feel may be useful is
Creative
Writing Tutorial -
Grammar
http://teenwriting.about.com/teens/teenwriting/library/blext
ras/blextra136.htm?terms=grammar. This site gives a good
starting point for
discovering what areas grammar mistakes
most often occur in teen
writings. I found several links to
other sites that may be
of use.
Holly A. Meyers
r Wahlstrom:
I have one or two ideas
for I-search topics, but I am not committed to
anything yet. I am still
trying to think of a few more areas that interest
me before I make a
decision. Right now, I have an interest
in writing about
the use of journal
writing in class. I also have an interest
in student
publishing
(newsletters/newspapers, etc.), but I am having a hard time
finding info on the web.
I have a Journalism degree from
of course, I have an
interest in that area, but I am trying to break away
from the journalistic
view of writing and look at more creative ways to
write (I am terrible at
creative writing, and hope to get better as I learn
with my students).
I have found a few
websites on journal writing, but I need to take some time
this weekend to research
them. Here is an example of the info I
found:
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d99.html
-
Effective Use of Student
Journal Writing
Prepared by:
Communication Digest #99
The concept of a
"communications triangle" of reading, writing, and
discussing implies the
need for a methodology whereby the teacher could
stimulate the natural
interaction of language uses in students to further
linguistic development.
Specifically, it implies the need for a method with
which the teacher could
connect reading and writing assignments to teach
"the art of
communicating" (Simpson, 1986).
As the cornerstone of
such a communications method, student journals have
proven simple, yet
effective (see Bromley, 1993). For example, one secondary
school teacher uses the
following method: The teacher starts with an oral
reading of a passage
from literature, follows it up with journal writing
about the passage, and
ends with voluntary sharing of journal entries by
students. Notably,
during the journal writing, the teacher, as well as the
students, writes about
the passage. Then, both to model a critical response
and to set the students
at ease about sharing their own responses, the
teacher shares his/her
journal entry first. As a result of this technique,
the students practice
listening and speaking--reciprocating in group
discussion, and reading
and writing critically--recognizing and evaluating
their opinions and
beliefs (Simpson, 1986).
There are a few others
that I have found, and if you would like to see them,
I can share them with
you. I will know more about my I-search
topic next
week when I have had a
chance to investigate this weekend.
Meg O'Connor
Dr.Wahlstrom,
For my I-search paper I
intend to interview students of all
ages as well as teachers as to how they best learn
to
write. For the teachers, I want to know which way
they feel
the students best learn
to write.
Karri Schiffler
Dr. Wahlstrom,
I submit to you two
excellent websites that may be useful for teachers and
students alike. One is regarding teaching the language of
William
Shakespeare, and the
other is for more general education purposes.
http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm
is provided by the Folger
Shakespeare Library and
offers suggestions for teachers' lesson plans,
schedules for workshops
across the nation, and contains a chat room so
teachers may swap ideas
about how to teach the works of Shakespeare.
http://www.learninggate.com/site/company/aboutUs.asp
offers strategies for
several school subjects
including language arts. It also
provides
information about
learning standards, professional development, and of
course instructional
resources.
I do not know if this
will be any use to me as I continue to narrow my
subject, but I am
certain that someone in class will finds these to be most
useful.
Sincerely,
Todd Hariaczyi
Dr. Wahlstrom,
In regards to the I-Search paper, I was
thinking of researching the use of writing in an
I am planning on interviewing my mother for
this paper as she is an ESL teacher.
This is the only topic that I have come up
with so far and I would appreciate your input on this subject. Thank you.
Emily Wilde
Dr. Wahlstrom,
Here is a list of links that I believe with
be helpful for my I-Search paper on how ESL students learn to write.
http://www.rong-chang.com/
This is the home page for ESL. It has many sites that could be useful to
teaching ESL.
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/
This site gives
http://eleaston.com/english.html
This site gives links to several useful ESL sites
on-line, including the ones listed below.
http://www.everythingesl.net/
Site gives links to many writing activities. I believe this site will be very helpful
since it explores the different levels that students can be at and suggests
lessons for each level. This site links
to entire lesson plans for teaching writing to ESL students.
http://www.interlog.com/~vacomm/essays/esltips.html
This site
Dr Wahlstrom,
I think I would like to do my I-search
paper on a topic reagrding
literacy and
writing. I am sure I will narrow my
topic once I have done
some more research but
if you have any suggestions that would be really
helpful. I look forward to hearing your input.
Here is a list of the
links that I found during class.
The study of writing and
literacy
http://www-ge.berkeley.edu/research/NCSWL/csw.homepage.html
Devoted to the research,
study and teaching of visual literacy as well as
the improvement of
students reading and writing.
http://www.ivla.org/
This web site gives
interactive links to literacy resources among other
things.
http://cls.coe.utk.edu/
This site is dedicated
to research studies on writing classes.
http://www.sou.edu/library/instruct/writing/research.htm
This is the
page. It offers links to their research, workshops, publications and
researchers.
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/NCSWL/csw.homepage.html
This link is about
teaching writing with cognitive metaphors.
It gives a
list of resources and
sample assignments.
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/cdesmet/CCCC/handout.html
Christina Barone
I am going to do my
I-Search paper on the connection between
reading and
writing. The reason why I want to do
this is
because I have seen
firsthand the benefits that reading and
writing have in common.
I've read my whole life and write
with ease,however my
good friend never reads and struggles
constantly with his
writing. I want to focus on
studies/articles that
promote the connection between reading
and writing. I found a website that beleives in the
benefits of reading to
young children. The site tells what
these benefits are. I will be searching for more
articles/web sites.
The address is:
http://barbsbooks.com/benefit.html
I'm toying with the
topic of using technology in the deaf classroom. Some
internet sites that
seemed useful were:
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/TeleComp/florida.html
This site described some
specific programs used in the deaf classrooms at
http://www.rit.edu/~490www/pubs_tech.html
This site was great
because it lists numerous articles on the topic and
where to obtain those
articles.
http://www.home.inreach.com/torsi/technology.html
Also listed specific
programs
Jennifer Hutchinson
I am definitely going to
do my I-Search paper on
the development and
incorporation of the NYS ELA
standards. The attachment is the list of links I
found that relate to this topic and will assist in
my
research.
I-Search sites:
These sites from your web page look helpful:
teachers & writers online
New York Learning Standards State Government page
standards overview
http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/standardslib/langarts.html
This site is from NYSEC and has a good question/answer
section. It includes same
Wow! There are links to all types of information about state learning standards on this page. It also includes links to the standards by state. I might want to compare the NYS standards to other states, but that will probably be too broad. This is great information if I move out of state to teach though.
http://putnamvalleyschools.org/StSu/ELA.html
Here is a short list of the standards followed by ways that storytelling can enhance the teaching of these standards. This will relate directly to writing and the standards.
http://www.storyarts.org/lessonplans/newstandard/nystandard.html
This site gives examples of student work for each standard. That is a great resource of ideas for teachers and good for my paper to see exactly how the standards are being employed.
http://www.cnyric.org/standards/docs/standards/ela/ela2.html
This has a lot of inventive ways to teach ELA. This is just a good link for teachers; I don’t think it will help with my paper very much.
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/curriculum/langarts.shtml
This is a school’s web page for parent involvement in the standards. How cool!
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/curriculum/langarts.shtml
http://www.virginia.edu/cla/english.htm
This seems like a good
site with lots of links and
resources.
Dr. Wahlstrom,
For my I-search paper, I would like to do writing lessons
using technology. I have some journal
articles and lessons at home from another project. Here are the links that I found today. These are more lesson plans than actual
activities
Jessica Kulbago
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
This site is a search engine designed to find lesson
plans based on the title you
enter.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/Hamlet/hamletchoice.html
This site is a lesson plan based on Shakespeare's Hamlet
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/
This is a site based out of
http://www.unc.edu/cit/tips/writing.html
This site is more what I am looking for. It discusses actual writing activities
using the technology.
Dear Dr. Wahlstrom,
I'm not sure that I will
pursue the topic I mentioned in
class (
the importance of
writing in the"real world"). If I do move
ahead, however, I did
find a site that might be a place to
start. It is
www.newzletter.com/JW003G03.html. Although this
site is primarily a plug
for this lady's lecture tour, she
does make a very good
argument for the importance of
effective writing in the
modern business world. I'm sorry I
don't have more sites to
send to you, but I keep ending up
in
Dr. Wahlstrom,
Here are two topics I
was thinking about:
1. As you know, I am interested in art history,
and I was thinking about how to incorportate writing about art into the
classroom so that it fits into the curriculum.
2. My other idea is on writing an article for an
academic journal. For example, making
the leap from writing for an
Please let me know what
you think, I didn't really find anything on the internet except a few sites
that help writers actually write their papers.
There were services that you pay to help you. They did not provide the information I
wanted.
Thank you,
Julie Steinhardt
Hi!
I came up with a few
decent sites...
First:
www.ms/edu/~klein/WAC_links.html This
site gives a very breif
history of WAC but is
full of links. Some of these links are helpful, some
are not. One helpful
includes: www.niu.edu/acad/english/wac/wac.html which
has a more complete
history of wac and further links to a few dozen
univerisyt sites. This site also has WAC program discussions
wherein some
teachers describe the
WAC programs in their schools.
Second: Another useful site is
www.psesd.wednet.edu/wac This site is
run
from the
are the curriculum
outlines for Art, Science, Social studies and Writing all
of which are teaching
using writing as a tool.
Check this out! It even has a web tutorial on the writing
process!!!!
Pretty cool!
B
My topic is Feminist
Pedagogy.
Here is the list of
websites I found relating to my topic:
Gender and Creative
Writing: a Bibliography
<http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliog
s/gendercr.htm>
-I chose this site
because there is an extensive listing of
texts for further research.
Education Specialists
and Lecturers
<http://engish.cla.umn.edu/edspecs.htm>
-I chose this site
because there are e-mail addresses for
several of the leading
women in this field and I will be
able to contact them for
information.
Feminist Pedagogy
<http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/cr
femped.htm>
-I chose this site
because there is a list of texts I can
use for further
research.
Gender and Writing
<http://athena.english.vt.edu/~1styear/bb/gender.html>
-This site discusses the
different attitudes towards men's
and women's writing.
Feminist Pedagogy
Bibliography
<http://womenstudy.cla.umn.edu/research/fempedbid.html>
-This site provides more
texts to research.
Annotated Bibliography
on feminist pedagogy in the
composition classroom
<http://www.as.wvu.edu/~library/laska.html>
-This site discusses the
effects of feminization of
composition on the
students in the classroom.
Adolescent Girls and
Classroom Discourse
<http://www.stf.sk.ca/kiosk/Research/projects/proj10.htm>
-This site discusses the
ways to approach teaching young
girls in the classroom.
Elizabeth Kirchmeyer
The following sites
discuss teaching writing in the
multicultural
classroom. I would be interested in the
challenges of teaching
writing in a very culturally diverse
classroom. This topic seems to touch on ESL students as
well. How difficult is it to get across to so many
different cultural
backgrounds? Why do some students
understand/relate to
instruction and others do not? What
techniques will I need
to use that will relate to all of the
students?
http://www.ncte.org/teach/Cliett27021.html
This site offers a link
to Blackboard.com, which offers free
on-line courses. The course that it is supposed to link to,
"Teaching Writing
for African-American Students," however,
is not available.
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dlhmark/
This contains several
links regarding diversity in the
classroom.
http://www.teachingforchange.org/
I am having trouble
accessing this site again. I went in
once, but have been
unsuccessful in my last three attempts.
http://cc.purdue.edu/~pmatsuda/slw/b_intro.html
This lists several books
on second language writing and one
on teaching writing in a
multicultural setting.
Brenda Pattison
From: John Cronyn/ Eng
309
To: Dr. Wahlstrom
Re: I-Search topic: How
do reading skills effect writing skills?
Score Language arts
Teaching home page.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/promising/prreading/prreadin.html
Web site that shows
resources for a strong literature,
language, and
comprehension program that includes a balance of oral and
written language.
Reading integration.
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d120.html
Shows and discusses what
reading and writing across curriculums can do for
students.
California Standards
guide for reading.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/cdepress/lang_arts.pdf
Goes through the k-12
reading standards for
Writing about
literature.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/promising/tips/tipcadwrit.html
Efforts to improve students
ability to read and then communicate effectively
about what they have
read.
Dr. Wahlstrom
For my I-search paper I
want to focus on teaching standard
english and writing to
students that speak non-standard
dialects. I have done some research on this topic
before
and I'm hoping to learn
more about what teachers are doing
to help these students
in their english classes.
Here are some sites I am
planning on using but there will
probably be more.
1.Cross Cultural
Communication-Culture,Communication,and
Language
2.Cross Cultural
Communication-Teaching Standard
(Both from)
www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/ccc/6.html
3.CCC online
CCCC:Position Statements
www.ncte.org/ccc/12/sub/state.html
4. Ed275792 1986-10-00
Teaching writing to lingustically
diverse students. ERIC
www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed275792.html
Thanks
Anthony Miller 309W
From: Gentre M. Garmon
Re: The Importance of a Multicultural Education Program in Our Ethnically Diverse Schools
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs97/97981.html
This site provides information regarding the teachers’ working conditions in ethnically diverse public schools.
http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/classes/stuehler/engl105/leogay.html
This site offers an introduction to multicultural education as well as information on the importance of implementing the program in schools across the country.
http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/guides/pg6.html
This site offers a brief guide to the necessity of incorporating multicultural education programs in the classroom.
http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/npin/pnews/pnew397/pnew397h.html
This site briefly discusses the controversy over bilingual programs in our educational system.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le0bow.htm
This site discusses the link between cultural diversity and student performance in the classroom.
http://www.escambia.k12.fl.us/instres/alted/culdiv.html
This site briefly discusses multiculturalism in education and offers several links that are related to this issue.
http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/iasa/california.html
This site briefly
examines multicultural education in the state of
Internet sites:
www.cshore.com - site
has tips for students and
teachers how to improve
writing skills.
www.angelfire.com - site is aimed for teachers. There
are lesson plans and
resources to use in teaching
writing, mainly creative
writing.
www.education-world.com
- site gives alot of
information for students
to be able to check their own
writing, to be
independent writers and thinkers. Has a
series of questions that
students can ask each other
and themselves to think
critically about what they
have composed.
I am reading one of your
books for my text
presentation about
writing conferences. I am very
interested in pursuing
this topic for my I- search
paper. Writing
conferences are very important for many
reasons and would want
to investigate this, especially
educating myself as my
role as an educator. What can I
do as a teacher to make
kids confident about their
writing ?
Thanks, Karen skalski
309W