Paragraph and Sentence Basics

Description: No Child Left Behind school reform legislation requires student improvement in reading and writing to a standard referred to as Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP. To earn AYP in English language arts, students must reach targeted levels on both the state’s reading and writing assessments. Unfortunately, teachers, typically, focus their instruction on either reading instruction or writing instruction as opposed to focusing on both language arts at the same time. As a result, students may improve in one of the areas but represent little gain in the other, a situation that many schools are facing at this time.

Teaching students to write and then using the components of writing to help them read better takes advantage of the common and predictable features of expository and narrative text. Because awareness of text and sensitivity to its structure promotes meaning construction and, therefore, reading and writing competence, teachers can help students understand reading and writing--simultaneously--as they explore learning and complete learning activities.

Session One: The Minimum Every Instructor Should Know About The Paragraph!

This session reviews the essential elements of the paragraph and its critical sub-parts and provides a fool proof instructional strategy that strengthens students’ ability to write paragraphs and facilitates their competence in constructing meaning when reading. More than these, though, this session will emphasize and demonstrate the importance of reading and writing instruction as a whole school strategy to earn Adequate Yearly Progress in English Language Arts in accordance with current Michigan MEAP requirements.

Topics Covered:

• Reading Comprehension Research Findings
• Research Findings From How People Learn
• Instructional Model To Teach The Paragraph

Session Two: The Minimum Every Instructor Should Know About The Sentence!

Session Two: This session reviews the essential elements of the sentence and its critical sub-parts and provides a fool proof instructional strategy that strengthens students’ ability to understand the concept of sentence as well as help them write sentences that match state and national English language arts standards; additionally, the session will facilitate student competence in peer and self-editing, and will demonstrate the importance of avoiding major errors in writing (run-ons, comma splices, fragmentary sentences, sentences that make no sense) as well clarify the important stylistic techniques writers use to de-clutter their sentences and improve their fluency as well.

Topics Covered:

• Writing Instruction Research Findings
• Why Are The Students Faring So Poorly As Writers? Readers?
• Instructional Model To Teach The Sentence

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