Shannon Pella, UC Davis, Sacramento City Unified School District, Area 3 Writing Project, Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment
Demonstration: S
Convention Center 311
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
On-demand writing has joined the ranks of high stakes assessments. One way to prepare students for testing in a randomly selected genre, particularly English Learners, is explicit instruction through genre analysis. Writing instruction that is provided through scaffolding and field building can help students identify the prompt genre and articulate effective responses.