Quick Write
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1. List things you write just for yourself.
2. List things you write for someone else,
but you don't care if there's a mistake.
3. List things you write for someone else,
and you care if there's a mistake.
Quick Write
The "Write" Audience
Audience Appreciation & Awareness in Middle & Secondary Classrooms
Mr. Ryan Batsie & Ms. Danielle Valenilla
What do you think?• How do we motivate our students
to write?• How do we provide our students
with authentic writing experiences?
• How do we move away from the "audience of one" (AKA you, the teacher) mentality?
• Gallagher (2006) Teaching Adolescent Writers
o Atwell (2002) Lessons that change writers
• Maxwell, Allyn and Bacon (1996) Writing Across the Curriculum
Research
Our TheoryThere are three levels of audience
that middle and secondary teachers should consider as they plan instruction.
• Level 1 Audience (__% of class writing)o Writing for YOURSELF
• Level 2 Audience (__% of class writing)o Writing for ANOTHER
• Level 3 Audience (__% of class writing)o Writing for ANYONE
How much should we write?
• Personal notes• Quick-writes• ALL 1st drafts • Lists of ALL kinds• Brainstorming• Asking Questions• ALL Journal Writing• Doodling
What Level 1 Looks Like
• Creates autonomy for students• Allows them verbal freedom
(slang, etc.)• Helps generate ideas & develop
fluency• Helps develop a sense of writer's
integrity/honesty• No pressure• Self-centered (developmental
needs)
Benefits of Writing for YOURSELF
• 2nd Drafts• Homework• Reaction Papers• Special Occasion Cards• Writing events on a calendar• Personal Letters• Text messages• Tweeting• Facebooking
What Level 2 Looks Like
EXIT SLIPS
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• Creates accountability for students• Continues to allow them verbal
freedom (slang, etc.)• Helps solidify ideas & develop
fluency• Helps writer question their sense
of writer's integrity/honesty• Low pressure to create meaning
for another• Interactive (developmental needs)
Benefits of Writing for ANOTHER
• Final drafts• Essays• Job Applications• Writing Contests• Letters to the Editor• Submissions for Publication
What Level 3 Looks Like
• Creates opportunities for students to engage in authentic audiences
• Impresses the importance of standard conventions for meaning
• Establishes writer's commitment and stance concerning ideas
• Higher pressure to create meaning for a wide array of audiences
• Publication (Bragging rights) (developmental needs)
Benefits of Writing for ANYONE
• Hashtags can teach themeo #realtalk #classroomlessons
#teachablemoments• Authentic writing
opportunitieso Revisiono Conveying proper tone
• Modeling different sentence structures
• Modeling proper grammar
Follow Me: @MsValenilla
A Current Local Contest
HOW DO I DO THIS IN MY CLASSROOM?!
So you're probably wondering...
Make three lists and write as many things as you can think of that apply to each list.
• List 1: The Things I Write for Only Me
• List 2: The Things I Write for a Few to See
• List 3: The Things I Write for a Large Audience to See
Quick-Write
The Write Audience in the Classroom
• How does this look in a real classroom?• How does a teacher plan for real
audiences?• What does a student example look like?
Lead by example
Planning TemplatesStandard Big
QuestionMeaningful Writing
Aligned Conventions
Mentor Text Authentic Audience
Writing Why do you like or dislike a book?
Amazon Book Review
Spelling Amazon Book Reviews
Amazon website viewers
Writing Medium
Supplies Audience
Amazon Book Review
• Access to Amazon account (parent’s or own)
• Computer with Internet access• Word processing program• Reading book• Amazon alternative template• Parent permission letter
Amazon website viewers
Planning Templates
Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri.
Introduce Amazon Book Review
Pass out parent permission letter
Read Amazon Book Reviews
Introduce Book Review Rubric
Outline Book Reviews
Draft Book Reviews
Publish book reviews to our class blog
Online Learning Environment
Authentic Requirements
Book Review Rubric
Book Review Rubric
Student Example
Student Example• This review is from: Winning Balance:
What I've Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams (Hardcover)
• When I first saw this book on a shelf at my local library I grasped it and knew I had to get it. Shawn Johnson and other gymnasts have always interested me, never being a gymnast myself it was exhilarating to read this book and live a life I have never experienced. I had never known much about Shawn Johnson before reading this book,I had seen her in commercials but I had never heard her story...
Student feedback
Now it’s your turn…• What is your time frame?• What are you teaching?• What are your opportunities for
authentic writing?• How can you target the different
audience levels?