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I will use the user friendly writing continuum to have my students understand the different writing genres and the purposes for writing. Then, we can experiment and hone our craft by writing in less familiar forms while incorporating the writer's craft and proficient conventions.

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My group can definitely improve here. We have consistently used persuasive and informative writing. I would like to incorporate more poetic and narrative writing and these have been neglected due to the time needed to complete decent, polished pieces.

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My students were familiar with reading about each genre.  However, they had written mainly persuasive and narrative pieces in their ELA classes.

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I have found that my groups were not enthusiastic about creating poetry--or even reading about it. They also did not cheer over autobiographical texts or writing--unless they loved the subject selected. Also, they eschewed writing about themselves (even short pieces) due to middle school angst (sharing personal details about their lives in written discourse was not enjoyable). I did not press them last year--but would like to find an enjoyable way to have them write in new genres/purposes this year.

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The writing continuum is so well organized and user friendly that my students and myself will have a plethora of guidance and support while we tackle the pure art form of writing.

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Last school year much emphasis was placed on expository writing and conventions (grammar, punctuation, spelling and capitalization.....which was greatly lacking.

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I am a LLI teacher in High School and the 9th graders that were in my class read on a 3rd - 5th grade reading level. Nothing was easy for any of my students, but if I was hard pressed to select a genre it would have to be "writing about reading, lists and procedures and friendly letters - Functional Genre.

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The whole process of writing seems quite difficult to my students and I try to motivate, inspire and provide them with interesting topics to write about based on our texts, but if I had to select the most difficult genre it would have to be Poetic Texts.

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The writing continuum has placed the genres into six separate categories which help to express why each type of writing is taught in a different manner even though being to write well is of vital concern for writing teachers.

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The writing continuum has placed the genres into six separate categories which help to express why each type of writing is taught in a different manner even though being to write well is of vital concern for writing teachers.

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Kim Anderson

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Last school year, I taught narrative, informational and persuasive writing using LLI.

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My students found narrative the easiest genre/form to write.

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My students found informational writing the most difficult to write.