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Welcome to Oklahoma State University Writing Project |
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 The Oklahoma State University Writing Project is committed to improving the teaching and learning of multiple literacies in Oklahoma's classrooms. As pre-k through university educators, we offer our colleagues a long-term professional development community. Our goal is to nurture reflective practitioners and teacher leaders grounded in inquiry and research-based practice. Effective teachers are the best instruments of social equity and positive educational change.
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National Day of Writing Poems |
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This year, I took my English IIIAP students at East Central High School in Tulsa through the process of writing “Where I’m From” poems as a prewriting exercise for a longer narrative essay. I took them through the process of brainstorming their memories, traditions, sensory experiences and personal scars. We also looked at different models of the poem. I am always amazed by the power of this writing exercise to help students learn to use vivid, concrete imagery in their writing, while developing their own personal voice. It also gives me the opportunity to learn a lot of new things about each of them Jo Stafford |
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