Week+1+Synopsis

1) Excellent teaching and assessing, daily writing, and writing enjoyment will translate to success on writing tests. -Whole-part-whole -Ways we can do this

2) Being intrigued by topic choice -Important, especially at the middle school level

3) Making the students the investigators about why a writing piece is good -Orally read pieces and discuss what made it good -Compare two pieces and have them pick out "good words" that made the piece sound better

4) Being a better teacher of writing: -Staff writing pieces -Teacher reflection notebook -Consider what you do as a writer, and realize that all students will work differently