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2024 Writing Tenets-Appendix B and Bibliography .docxThe KSDE Writing Tenets
The KSDE Writing Tenets
The following document includes 7 tenets for teachers and districts to use and follow for writing instruction throughout all curriculums and all grade levels. Writing should be explicitly taught in all grade levels and incorporated through all curriculums. Please read and review the Writing Tenets when developing writing instruction for all grade levels.
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Ratiocination is a revising process for students to break down something they wrote or someone else wrote and look at the passage or text logically. It allows them to look at a passage or text one step at a time and assess each component separately.
This process can vary in a multitude of ways in any curriculum or age. Teachers can use it to break down a primary document, a textbook passage, directions from a manual, or to revise a peer’s work.
Prior to passing out to students, the teacher would need to develop the directions or steps depending on how they wanted students to logically look at each passage and what deduction they want students to reach through the logical steps.
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What Works In Grammar Instruction by Deborah Dean
"People who understand language can make things happen. That is the point of grammar/language teaching. Not definitions. Not terminology. Language."
This book is a friendly and practical guide for teaching English grammar in the context of real, lived language. Veteran teacher educator Deborah Dean addresses the realities and challenges of grammar instruction with practical examples and her straightforward approach uncomplicates the task of teaching grammar in context, allowing her—and us—to share the excitement and wonder to be found in the study of language.
The Writing Revolution is as much a method of teaching content as it is a method of teaching writing. There’s no separate writing block and no separate writing curriculum. Instead, teachers of all subjects adapt TWR strategies and activities to their preexisting curriculum and weave them into their content instruction.
TWR breaks the writing process down into manageable chunks and then has students practice the chunks they need, repeatedly, while also learning content.
In July 2024 a second edition, The Writing Revolution 2.0, was published. by Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler. Both of these books can be purchased through The Writing Revolution Website.
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