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Writing Clinic

Focus: Students will practice mechanics of writing well developed paragraphs and gain confidence in their own writing abilities. Units 1 and 2, as described below, will be presented as the foundation for paragraph writing. Units 3 and/or 4 will be presented to expand skills relevant to classroom writing assignments.

Unit 1: Note Making and Outlines

GOALS:

  • Students will:Choose and record key words which will help them remember a complete idea and use a
    basic outline format.
  • Communicate the main ideas from something they have read by using their own key word
    outlines.
  • Choose selections, read them, create key word outlines independently, and orally retell the
    basic ideas to another person using only the outline.

Unit 2: Writing from Notes

GOALS:

  • For students to retell in writing short stories or articles by using key word outlines.
  • To provide content for students to use while learning the writing and rewriting process.
  • For students to become independent in the process of:
  • choosing a source and making a key word outline
  • rewriting from their own notes (without copying from the source)
  • dressing-up their summaries and rewriting a final draft

Unit 3: Retelling Narrative Stories

GOALS:

Students will:

  • Identify the story sequence in a narrative story.
  • Make outlines based on the Story Sequence Chart.
  • Summarize stories from outlines and internalize the components of a well constructed story.
  • Know that each paragraph has a purpose.

Unit 4: Summarizing a Reference

GOALS:

  • For students to learn to use the classroom or home library and ultimately the main library, find reading material on a topic, take notes, and write a summary. (For purpose of summer clinic, the reading materials will be provided.)
  • To introduce the topic sentence and concluding sentence.
  • For students to be able to use one reference, taking key word outline notes on a specific topic from a reference, and write summary from the outline.
  • For students to document their references and report orally or in writing on what they found and where they found it.

Submitted by
Elizabeth Hipwell, M.Ed.
Certified Barton Reading & Spelling Tutor

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