THE EXPOSITORY READING AND WRITING COURSE (ERWC) WAS INITIALLY DEVELOPED AS AN ALTERNATIVE CURRICULUM FOR STUDENTS IN GRADE TWELVE WHO HAD NOT DEMONSTRATED READINESS FOR COLLEGE-LEVEL
ENGLISH COURSES.
THE REACH OF THE CURRICULUM, HOWEVER, IS NOW EXTENDING TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADES.
THE ERWC PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WRITING PORTION OF THE COMMON CORE.
Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC)
Overview of the ERWC and EAP
The Goal: College ReadinessThe EAP: Early Assessment ProgramRemediation Data for Burbank Unified School
DistrictThe ERWC: Expository Reading and Writing
CourseThe ERWC and the Common Core
TAPPING INTO THE FLEXIBILITY AND CREATIVITY OF THE ERWC TEMPLATE
DEVELOPING A MODULEGRADE 10
“ THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY”
ERWC Template:Its Use and Creativity
Structure of the Module
Reading Rhetorically Pre- Reading Reading Post-Reading
Connecting Reading to WritingWriting RhetoricallyRevising and EditingEvaluating and Responding
Major Principles to Follow
The Interplay between the Reading of a text and the Writing of an essay
The Process of Writing as Recursive and Dynamic, not Linear Process which Consists of Distinct Units or Steps
The Texts as Research: The Discovery of the Voices of an Ongoing Discussion
The Development of the Habits of Mind which Lead to Complexity, i.e. Depth of Knowledge
Topic and Text Selection
Topic Appeal and Focus. Is it: Appropriate and appealing to the students? At grade level? Flexible so that a prompt can be developed for
either argumentative essay or expository essay?
Rigor of the Texts. Does they: Have a reading level that is at grade level? Provide a variety of perspectives?
Non-fictionNon-fiction LiteraryLiterary
“Friends Without Borders” Facebook as Big Brother
“Obama Warns Teens” Protecting Personal Info
“Almost Famous” Acting Bad for Fame
“Teens and Online Privacy” A Pew Survey
The Cold Equations Technology’s Inhumanity
The Pedestrian The Loss of Community
“Intelligent Car” Evasiveness of Technology
Text Selection: The Bad Side
Non-FictionNon-Fiction
“HS Girls Embrace Tech” Science Internships
“Teen Millionaire” Selling a $30 Company
“Teens and the News” A News Team
“The Good and Bad” Opinion Piece
Text Selection: The Good Side
Key Concept and Vocabulary
Activity One: From the provided text, select a “key concept”
which is not simply a new vocabulary word. Devise an activity to introduce the “key concept.”
Activity Two: Select “new vocabulary” from the provided text. Devise an activity to introduce the “key
vocabulary”.
Reading and Rereading
Activity Three: Pick a strategy to establish literal meaning. Create an activity that makes use of the strategy.
Activity Four: Create an activity to annotate a selected text. Focus the annotation on exploring how the text
works to inform or persuade: e.g. connotation.
Thinking Critically and Negotiating Voices
Activity Five: Create an activity to annotate a selected text. Focus the annotation on exploring how the text
works to inform or persuade through Logos, Ethos, and Pathos.
Activity Six: Complete “models of language” to integrate and
situate other voices.
Concluding Thoughts: Some Tools
The PAPA SquareEditing ChecklistHolistic Scoring GuideDepth of Knowledge
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