Description
Are you searching for methods to engage your students and help them fall in love with writing? In this 1-hour course from Shannon Anderson, a distinguished author of children’s books and seasoned teacher, you’ll discover various approaches to inspire creativity and improve students’ writing abilities. Shannon provides an extensive selection of activities, tips, and techniques to make writing enjoyable and engaging for your students.
Throughout the course, Shannon explores the use of mentor texts, creative writing activities, and methods to engage reluctant writers. She also emphasizes the importance of collaboration and introduces poetry and other writing forms to expand students’ creative horizont.
While this course is beneficial on its own, it is intended as a follow-up session to Creativity Disclaimer – Your Kids May Fall in Love with Writing!, which is available in our course library.
In this 1-hour course, you will learn:
- How to use mentor texts to inspire students and develop their writing voices
- Creative writing activities to boost students’ skills and confidence
- Strategies for engaging reluctant writers and creating a supportive writing environment
- The benefits of collaborative writing and storytelling for building teamwork and creativity
- Incorporating poetry and other writing forms to foster a love for writing throughout the year
Elizabeth – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for writing instruction!
BILLIE – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
I loved the way everything is organized and all the ideas she shares with us.
rachel – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
great resource
Dora – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Presenter shared a variety of examples to engage students with their writing.
Melanie – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Megan – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I loved her ideas!! They are easy to apply to my kindergarten classroom.
Amber – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was AMAZING! I enjoyed the real-life strategies that I could easily incorporate into my writing block.
Rosa – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Gives amazing ideas that can be implemented in the classroom.
Krista – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I love the PD courses by Shannon Anderson! She has so many creative and fun activities to engage all students!
Amy – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I love Shannon’s ideas! She always shares such creative and practical lesson ideas to help our students!
Debra – ASHTABULA AREA CITY (verified owner) –
Great writing ideas! I am anxious to try some of these next year.
Amanda – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Shannon Anderson always offers by favorite TAGT courses as an ELAR teacher. I feel like hers are the most meaningful and purposeful, and I can actually implement her ideas in my classroom. Love her!
Raquel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful
Janet – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
I have enjoyed this course and thought it was very informative.
Cindy – NEDERLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I always enjoy Shannon’s courses. She gives some great ideas for teaching writing that can be used immediately in the classroom with low prep.
Lisa – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
This was a great PD, however, if you take notes, because you need them, this is longer than an hour.
Becky – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a quick recap of the course prior to this course. I enjoyed it and got great mentor text idea and books to incorporate into my class to help my students with their writing.
Selena – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Course gave me a great resource to use for my student’s texts and how to create better topics for the student’s to write about.
Michelle – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas for Mentor text and what lesson goes with them to get students excited about writing
Heidi – Yellow Springs Exempted Village (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Jaime – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Jeffery – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of ideas were shared and the presenter was interesting to listen to during the course. I enjoyed it.
Cynthia – ASHTABULA AREA CITY (verified owner) –
I always appreciate writing courses that have new ideas.
Emmanuel – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I love everything Shannon creates for teachers. I have started to follow her on social media. She’s great!
Yasin – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
Good for ELA Teachers
Grace – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and her examples are easy to implement.
Claudia – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
This course incorporates the six traits of writing.
Shelley – DANVILLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
I felt the course was good. I have attended her speaking and have one of her books. I did feel that the question in the quiz regarding fluency turned itself into a trick question when leaving off the word sentence. While I knew the word sentence with it, I’m not sure that this course (at an hour) is enough to internalize the six traits of writing if you did not know them coming in. Also, all of the extras with books at the end is rough for people only living on their teacher salary. It will promote inequity in districts where some teachers can afford to do it and some cannot.
Ethan – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I love learning from Shannon. I think she has a wealth of knowledge and ideas to share.
Leticia – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
A defininte must attend. Tremendous wealth of new ideas.
Gloria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with great writing activities for the whole school year!
Soledad – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting.
Naomi – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the engaging strategies, especially the “author chair” the presenter did in her classroom.
Chari – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
Great subject
Carolina – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. I loved the ideas to motivate creative wrtiting
Tracey – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
It was not a secondary training. My HS students might like having stuffed animals created from their imaginative writing, but it does not correlate w/ their TEKS>
David – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Worth your while.
Francis – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful to get students writing!
Ashlee – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Sara – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
It is very interesting.
Mayra – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
The ideas that were given were really interesting. Something I would like to try with my students.
Mayte – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Really liked the information on how to get students to write. This is a subject I struggle teaching but hopefully implementing some of the ideas I can get them more involved.
Norma – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Nice!
Erika – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
It was good but I teach math and I would have a hard time implementing something like this is my classroom.
Rosa – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed watching the students tell us about the Six Traits which included a song.
Peggy – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
It was pretty interesting.
Lorena – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Good training but not geared for high school teachers
Victor – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It gives many ideas for creative writing and allows the students’ imaginations to flourish.
JENNIFER – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting writing activities
RLAPI101 – Test District (verified owner) –
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