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Purpose directly relates to the form or genre selected to express writers’ ideas. In this session, the teachers examine this relationship, presenting classroom examples of students working in many genres, including persuasive writing, memoir, and poetry. Their subsequent analysis underscores what students can learn by examining commonalities and differences among genres and the value of multigenre projects. In the writer’s workshop, the teachers tackle this question as well, selecting a genre or a combination of genres to share vivid events from their lives.
“Students need to inhabit the genre if they are to master it.”
— Lucy Calkins
These are the key points the teachers, educators, authors, and students consider:
This workshop focuses on the intersection between purpose for writing and the genre chosen to carry out that purpose. It explores the different genres in which students are now writing and what they learn about writing from these experiences. Multigenre texts and their creation are also investigated.
Try this interactive activity, Workshop 4, to practice writing in different genres. It’s part of A Writer’s Notebook, an online writer’s workshop led by noted author Judith Ortiz Cofer.
Check all the boxes that apply.
Autobiography | |
Biography | |
Informative essay | |
Memoir | |
Memoranda and other business correspondence | |
Narrative nonfiction | |
Newspaper articles | |
Opinion essay | |
Personal letters | |
Persuasive essay | |
Professional letters | |
Research reports | |
Web site materials | |
Other | |
Which literary genres do your student writers have a chance to explore and practice? Check all the boxes that apply. |
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Drama | |
Fable | |
Fantasy | |
Fiction | |
Fiction in verse | |
Folklore | |
Historical fiction | |
Horror | |
Humor | |
Legend | |
Mystery | |
Poetry | |
Science Fiction | |
Short Story | |
Other | |
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