Strengthening Students' On-Demand Writing Skills

Presented by Suzanne Kail
Acclaimed English/Language Arts Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades 6-12: English/Language Arts Teachers, Literacy Coaches, Special Education Staff and Administrators

Practical, ready-to-use strategies and techniques to help students become more confident and successful in writing on demand and process writing
Fitting it all in … How to teach your numerous ELA requirements and achieve high-quality writing results from all your students by integrating innovative strategies into your current curriculum and practices
Prepare students to write more effectively to on-demand prompts using all genres of writing
Leave with an extensive digital resource handbook filled with dozens of use-immediately strategies, activities, and tools designed specifically to strengthen students' on-demand writing skills

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Are you feeling the pressure to ensure that your students achieve high scores on standardized tests, but you don't want to resort to teaching solely for the test? Do you find yourself searching for ways to make writing enjoyable and engaging while still effectively preparing students for on-demand writing tasks? If you're nodding in agreement, we invite you to join us for a NEW seminar on on-demand writing. In this seminar, you will discover numerous practical strategies that not only make writing enjoyable but also equip students to excel in testing situations. You'll discover innovative methods to help your students analyze and revise their own writing, while promoting efficient and effective collaboration in writing groups—all of this with the added benefit of reducing your workload.

Led by acclaimed national writing expert Suzanne Kail, who brings years of experience as a secondary level ELA teacher, this seminar will showcase dozens of ways to strengthen the writing skills of students in grades 6-12. Suzanne will guide you through teaching students how to critique and revise their own writing, foster teamwork in writing groups, and conduct writing conferences that empower students to revise and enhance their writing on the spot. These skills are vital for students to become proficient in writing effectively on demand. Suzanne will share a wealth of innovative techniques to take your students' writing to the next level. Whether you're working with struggling students or advanced writers, these practical and easy-to-implement tools are proven to increase fluency, confidence, and effectiveness in writing.

Join Suzanne Kail for a day filled with doable and impactful strategies that will elevate your writing instruction and yield powerful results. Strengthen your students' writing skills, enhance their confidence, and make writing a truly enjoyable experience for all.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

The Keys to Practically and Successfully Teach Students to Write Effectively On Demand
Learn how to use a system of modeling, analyzing mentor texts, self-evaluation, peer critique groups, and writing conferences to develop students' writing skills
Improve On-Demand Writing Skills
Help your students be more successful in on-demand writing … Here's how
Harness the Power of AI to Improve On-Demand Writing
Discover how to teach students ethical and effective ways to use AI to improve their writing as well as how to use AI as a tool for creating effective, engaging instructional materials
Strengthen Your Students' On-Demand Writing Scores
Proven approaches for helping students score higher on standardized state and national on-demand writing tasks
Provide the Scaffolding that Your Struggling Students Need to Write Successfully On Demand
Learn the best strategies to strengthen your students on-demand writing skills and connect knowledge to new learning to increase their achievement
Increase Students' Motivation to Write and Revise
Discover strategies to motivate your students to develop a sense of ownership of their writing and confidence in themselves as competent writers … Ready-to-use mini-lessons and activities for revising student writing, including strategies for teaching students to gather, organize, use, and integrate evidence effectively into their own writing
Easily Incorporate High-Impact, Low-Prep Instructional Strategies
Leave with a ready-to-use toolbox of strategies perfect for helping you conduct lessons that will boost students' skills in analyzing and producing writing
Develop Consistency in Evaluating and Responding to Student Writing
Deconstruct rubrics and scoring criteria used in standardized testing and accurately use the scoring criteria to evaluate your students' progress … Learn how to create your own scoring and evaluation criteria tailored to your writing assignments
Reduce the Time You Spend Grading Student Writing
Learn proven strategies to significantly reduce the time you spend grading while increasing all of your students' writing skills
Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with dozens of techniques, strategies, and activities you can use the very next day to strengthen students' on-demand writing skills

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Innovative ways to help your students increase the quality of their writing and enable you to fit in all the ELA standards you are required to teach
How to conduct writing conferences that provides feedback that motivates students to revise
Practical strategies to help students identify, select, and integrate strong evidence into their writing
Easy-to-use revision exercises targeted to boost on-demand writing scores
Accelerating struggling students' writing skills using self-regulated strategy development
Outstanding, ready-to-use mini lessons to stimulate authentic revision of student writing
How to get students more deeply engaged in the process of writing, leading to stronger finished products
How to give targeted feedback that reduces grading time and increases student progress
Proven tips for working more efficiently and effectively spending more time collaborating and creating, and less time grading papers
How to increase students' confidence in writing and focus less on grades and more on achieving substantive personal goals
How to get students serious about peer feedback
Increase students' ability to write more fluently, producing more words per minute in their writing
Proven ways to teach students to read and revise their writing using interactive rubrics that are much more than checklists
Model lesson plans you can use or adapt to successfully integrate all the writing skills students need

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

I'll bet you entered this profession, teaching reading and writing, because you love the magic that happens when readers and writers meet. It's my guess that none of you entered this profession to prepare students to take standardized tests.

Yet, the stress and pressure that students and teachers alike feel at the mention of high-stakes tests is a reality that cannot be ignored. I hear teachers again and again ask, "How can I help students raise student test scores in a way that results in authentic, life-long learning?"

Trying to balance the tension between needing to prepare students for high stakes testing and wanting to develop in them a lasting love of reading and writing is one of the most difficult challenges we have as ELA teachers. It's a struggle that compelled me to get involved with the standardized testing process, to learn some ins and outs, behind the scenes of the testing so I could use creative ways to better prepare my students for success.

Using my experiences working behind the scenes on standardized tests and as an ELA teacher at the secondary level, I have spent the last several years developing strategies to find the balance in my writing classroom between preparing students to write for on-demand testing situations and, at the same time, preparing them for authentic, real-world writing tasks. My students' confidence, competence, and test scores have improved, and, even better, they have come to enjoy writing. I have developed a system for empowering students to improve their own writing, which has decreased my grading and given me more time to work one-on-one with my students, making my teaching more enjoyable and rewarding.

Consequently, I have developed this new seminar to share proven ways you can organize your instruction to fit more into class time, reduce your paper load and most importantly, significantly improve student writing. My goal is that you will return to your classroom with a wealth of practical strategies and tools for improving students' writing abilities and, in particular, their ability to write effectively on demand. I look forward to meeting you at the seminar. The day will be packed with exciting new practices, strategies and perspectives that will enable you to teach writing and empower students in engaging new ways.

Sincerely,
Suzanne Kail

P.S. You will also receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with practical, proven strategies, outstanding resources and time-saving digital tools you can use immediately.

Who Should Attend

Educators Serving Grades 6-12: English/Language Arts Teachers, Literacy Coaches, Special Education Staff and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Practical, ready-to-use strategies and techniques to strengthen student writing and significantly reduce your take-home papers to grade
Motivational engagement strategies that can be used to focus your class at the beginning of periods or as entire lessons
Effective, accessible resources for helping your students meet your state's standards for writing
Powerful strategies using a variety of multimodal tools to increase your students' motivation, involvement, and success as writers in an age of constantly evolving technology
Sample lesson plans that will help you "fit it all in"

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their on-demand writing skills program.

Consultation Available
Suzanne Kail will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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