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| Overview: |
Every teacher wants their students to learn to write well. What’s the secret for accomplishing this important goal?
An important answer is to give students explicit instruction in the craft of writing, how to navigate the writing process, and how to use writing conventions with accuracy and understanding. You’ll give these kinds of instruction in the daily writing lessons contained in the units in your writing curriculum.
To help you lift the level of your craft and convention lessons, this workshop will help you improve your skills with teaching with mentor, or model, texts. By studying mentor texts, students learn about the different aspects of authors’ craft – focus, structure, detail, voice -- and conventions, and see how they can integrate them into their own writing.
And to help you improve your lessons that teach strategies for navigating the stages of the writing process, this workshop will help you get better at teaching with “process texts.” Process texts are writing from each stage of the writing process, most often written by the classroom teacher. These texts show students how experienced writers use strategies to navigate the writing process, strategies that students can then use themselves.
By teaching with mentor and process texts, you align your practice to the principle of learning that an important way people learn to do something is by studying what more skilled people do. Teaching with mentors is an important focus of Carl’s books A Teacher’s Guide to Mentor Texts and How to Become a Better Writing Teacher (with Matt Glover).
During the webinar, Carl will help you improve these aspects of teaching with mentors:
- The “craft of writing,’ defined.
- How to teachcraft and conventions with mentor texts in minilessons, small-group lessons, and writing conferences
- How to find multiple teaching points in mentor texts.
- Teaching students how to study mentor texts independently and continue to develop their repertoire of craft techniques themselves.
- How to teach with process texts to show students how more experienced writers navigate each step of the writing process.
- How to create your own process texts to use as teaching tools.
Participants will see video of work that Carl has done with children, as well as read and study student writing and mentor texts. You’ll also get some experience with writing your own process texts. During the webinar, participants will learn practical strategies they can use as soon as they return to their classrooms, and which will help them become better teachers of writing. |
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| Potential Audience: |
| This two-day workshop is designed for the K-8 teacher who wants to improve or strengthen their writing instruction skills, as well as for the literacy coaches, administrators, and curriculum specialists who support them. |
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| About Carl Anderson |
| Carl Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in writing instruction for grades K-8. He works as a consultant in schools and districts around the world. Carl is the author of numerous books on teaching writing, including How to Become a Better Writing Teacher (with Matt Glover), Teaching Fantasy Writing: Lessons that Inspire Student Engagement and Creativity K-6, A Teacher's Guide Mentor Texts K-5, A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences K-8, Assessing Writers, and How’s It Going?: A Pratical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers K-8. Carl is known for his keynote addresses, PD workshops, school-based residencies, and webinars. Follow him on social media: LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/carl-anderson-20049b350 and Instagram at @carlandersonconferring. |
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| Venue: |
| Mumbai |
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| Timings: |
8.30 am to 3.30 pm
Registration at 8.00 am on 26th September 2026 |
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| Investment |
Rs 65,000 + 18% GST
Includes: Certificate of Participation for 16 Professional Development Hours, light breakfast, morning tea, and lunch. |
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