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Enhance Your Teaching: Informative and Persuasive Writing Summer Institute

Join the Western Massachusetts Writing Project’s Summer Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Designed for middle and high school ELA and content area teachers, special education instructors, and literacy coaches, this professional development opportunity provides a framework for teaching informative and persuasive writing across various genres. Participants will engage in writing activities, evaluate student works, and design a standards-based curriculum project. Gain enhanced personal writing skills and become part of a collaborative teaching community.

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Enhance Your Teaching: Informative and Persuasive Writing Summer Institute

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  1. Welcome to Teaching Informative and Persuasive WritingA Summer Professional Development InstituteSponsoring Organization:Western Massachusetts Writing ProjectUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

  2. Institute Objectives. The Institute will: • Provide participants with a rhetorical framework and pedagogical strategies for teaching writing for informative and persuasive purposes and in a range of genres, both print and digital • Link instruction to the Writing Anchor Standards of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworkfor English Language Arts and Literacy • Develop participants’understanding of how writing stimulates thinking and understanding of subject matter across content areas • Support participants as they enhance their own personal and academic writing skills

  3. Who should Sign up for this Institute? • Middle and High School ELA and Content Areas Teachers (Grades 6-12) • Special Education Teachers (Grades 6-12) • Literacy Coaches or Curriculum Specialists • Multi-grade Teams of Teachers from Schools/Districts

  4. Summer Session: · 8:30 – 2:30 · 6 course sessions over two weeks On-line Activities: · August · September · October · November Follow-up Classes: · October · November Institute Logistics for Regional Course ·  6 full day Summer Course Sessions (three per week) ·  Monthly On-line Activities and Support ·  2 Fall Follow-up Sessions 3 Graduate Credits or 67.5 PDPs

  5. Rhetorical Context The Rhetorical TriangleThe modern rhetorical triangle consists of five elements: • speaker/writer • audience/readers • topic/message • purpose • rhetorical context

  6. Rhetorical Concepts to Consider _________________________________ Purposes of Argument Genres of Argument Audiences Appeals to Audience Context (Lunsford, Andrea A. and John Ruszkiewicz. Everything's an Argument. Bedford/St. Martins. 5th edition.)

  7. What will Participants do during the Institute? • Participate in Daily Informal Quick Writes • Complete a Personal Writing Project • Analyze Informative and Persuasive Writing • Evaluate Student Writings/Presentations • Design and Implement a Standards-based Curriculum Project

  8. Standards-based Curriculum Project • Goals • Unit Plans • Specific Assignments • Assessment • Student Work Samples • Final Presentation to Full Group to Share Projects

  9. Additional Support for Participants: Budget of $200 to $250, depending on the size of the group, for educational materials to support implementation of curriculum unit On-going support from Institute instructors, site facilitators, and school literacy coach and/or administrator Free copy of Everything's An Argument Ideally, participants will work as part of a team

  10. For further information, contact: Anne Herrington Site Director, Western Massachusetts Writing Project and Distinguished Professor of English Department of English, Bartlett Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 (413)545-5466 anneh@english.umass.edu www.umass.edu/wmwp

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