Learning Opportunities

Empowering Writers - Expository Writing

Presented By

Jennifer Seaton

Series Sessions

Date Time
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

In Person Le Goff School , Cold Lake, AB

This workshop is intended for teachers of students grade 2 and above, or any teacher responsible for teaching informational/expository writing. Come away with engaging lessons aligned to state standards that have clear objectives that will empower you to:

  • understand a variety of writing challenges: informational essay/report, the “how to” piece, compare contrast
  • explore opportunities for analyzing the organizational structure of the informational/expository essay
  • learn specific strategies for crafting strong introductions with attention-grabbing leads create clear, concise topic sentences
  • generate a number of broad yet distinct main ideas
  • write a variety of powerful supporting details
  • construct conclusions in which main ideas are creatively restated
  • receive powerful exemplars of informational/expository writing for classroom use
  • make the connection between powerful informational/expository exemplars and reading comprehension task

This learning opportunity is being offered throught a grant from Alberta Education.

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