THE WRITING PROCESS

Kagan Structures to Boost Skills from Prewriting to Publishing!

2 Day workshop

Would you like to see your students have passion for writing?

Would you like to boost writing scores? Eliminate writer's block? Acquire editing skills?

Create supportive peer response groups?

This is the workshop for you.

This practical, hands-on writing workshop demonstrates ways to use interactive Kagan Structures to enhance each stage of the writing process. Prewriting experiences crank up motivation to write. Positive peer response groups motivate students to edit and re-write.

A variety of presentation structures make publishing a non-threatening opportunity to share. Kagan's foolproof techniques successfully integrate writing across the curriculum. Experience the power of simple peer feedback techniques like Peer Response Gambits, to motivate and re-energize student writing.

You will leave this dynamic, experiential writing workshop with dozens of strategies for the eight stages of the writing process.

Students experience writing not as an assignment, but as an opportunity.

Workshop Highlights

  • Increase writing skills from production to distribution

  • Use structures to strengthen student writing through peer feedback and editing

  • Teach your students how to produce and identify clear and coherent writing

  • Learn a range of structures you can use at every stage of the writing process

  • Improve your students' writing for every text type and purpose including opinion, explanatory, and narratives

  • Integrate writing with reading, speaking and listening, and language skills

  • Leverage the power of student-to-student interaction for developing writing skills

With your attendance, you will receive:

  • Kagan Structures for The Writing Process Workbook

  • “I found the writing skills related to the structures very helpful. I can't wait to try these ideas with my students. They are going to love writing!”

    —SARA WYGANT, 5TH GRADE TEACHER

  • “Exceptional strategies that have empowered me to become a more effective and fun educator!”

    —STEPHANIE ANDERSON, TEACHER

  • “Literacy ideas were fantastic. I am leaving with knowledge of various structures and so many ways to implement in my curriculum.”

    —ALICIA SANDOVAL, 4TH GRADE TEACHER

  • “Outstanding! Relevant to any content, grade level and aligns with state standards and the new shift to common core.”

    -NANCY RUBLE, PRINCIPAL

  • “I always felt my class was well organized and managed. But these structures will take it up a notch and allow my students to be more accountable for their learning.”

    -HELEY JO, 3RD GRADE TEACHER

Kagan provides teachers with strategies to facilitate and regulate student interactions so no one can hide and all get a chance to share - in a safe way.

Kagan ensures that classrooms become safe and inclusive spaces where students can actively participate, collaborate, and thrive academically.