These are the slides used at ATIA 2014.

1. Writing Instruction that
Meets the Common
Core for Struggling
Students
Rick Weinberg

2. Contact Information
• Rick Weinberg
cell # 814.598.1280
• rick_weinberg@caboces.org
• Twitter @rickweinberg

3. A Little About Me
• I work for Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES
• I actually live in Pennsylvania
• I have presented at many local, state
and national conferences
• I have dyslexia

4. Articles I Have Published
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5. Why Teach Writing?
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The act of writing generates ideas.
Solve Problems, Identify issues and
construct questions
Reconsider something someone has
already tried
Try out a half-baked idea
National Counsel of Teacher of English NCTE.org

6. Why Teach Writing
Continued
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According to Marquette University, “the
primary basis upon which your work, your
learning, and your intellect will be judged--in
college, in the workplace, and in the
community."
http://www.chicagonow.com/white-rhino/2013/09/why-we-must-accept-commoncore-writing-standards/

7. Let’s take it to the
next level
• For students who need an augmented
communication device and can’t use
their own voice to speak, should you
help them program their device with
swear words?

8. We need to enable our
students with the tools that
will allow them to express
their ideas, their
understandings and their new
thinking. Technology for a
student with a learning
disability is not a luxury but a
fundamental human right.

9. Let’s Check

10. The Common Core
• Argument
• Informational/Explanatory
• Narrative
• Research Project

11. How can we teach
writing to struggling
Students?of students
• Continued and ongoing support
by teachers
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Ongoing and effective professional
development for teachers
Get ride of all the stuff (Letter
formation, grammar, spelling etc...)
• Use Assistive Technology

12. How are authors and
artists alike?

13. What makes this
man an artist?
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14. Technology is just the
tool...The thinking is
always inallows for others to see
their head
• The technology
the authors thinking.
• The technology allows for the creation
of artifacts.
• The artifact allows the
author, artist, dancer share their
thinking with an audience.

15. Writing : Ideas ::
mobility : cognitive
growth

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17. iPad vs Computer
• Much of what I show today can be done
on both

18. Assistive
Technologies
For Writing

19. Voice Recognition
• Siri
• Dragon Dictation
• Evi
• Google Voice Search

20. If you have a newer
iPad
• You can use Siri

21. You can use Dragon
Dictation

22. How about Evi

23. Google Voice Search

24. Word Prediction
• Free App called Better Speller

25. Organizing Ideas

26. Poplet

28. Have you ever been
in a class like this?

29. LiveScribe Pen
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30. Thank You

31. Contact Information
• Rick Weinberg
cell # 814.598.1280
• rick_weinberg@caboces.org
• Twitter @rickweinberg