Writing and Content Unite: Creating Expository Writing Units

This is the 4th webinar in the IDA-GA/TRL-GA Spotlight on Structured Literacy series. The Welcome begins at the 0:01:35 mark. Teachers always want more time to engage their classes with meaningful content and sharpen students’ essential writing skills, so why not combine these endeavors? During the session, participants will review the empowering potential of uniting content and writing instruction. Then they will be presented with a process to follow to create expository writing units on any topic. Examples of sentence, paragraph, and essay activities will be shared at a variety of grade and skill levels. Laura Dreyer is a teacher at The Schenck School. Before moving to Atlanta, she worked at The Windward School in New York as a teacher and staff developer. For more than a decade, Laura has supported students with language-based learning disabilities, their teachers, and their parents through classes, presentations, mentoring, and private tutoring. Laura earned a master’s degree in literacy and holds certification from the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) at the teaching level. Visit https://ga.dyslexiaida.org/april27-2022/ to access the slides from this presentation. Thank you to our 2022 Spotlight on Structured Literacy Sponsors! It is with the continued support of our sponsors that we are able to offer not only scholarship and grant opportunities but also events like this that are free and open to all those interested in learning more about dyslexia and effective interventions.