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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> </div>
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<ul style="font-size: 13px;"><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Social-emotional needs of advanced learners and the connection to students' writing.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Specific writing skills: careful word choice, varying sentence structure, improved figurative language.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">A collaborative writing process to improve revision and editing.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Narrative Writing: How to incorporate authentic tools such as themes, a well-structured plot and character archetypes.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Nonfiction Essays: How to write well-organized essays across all subjects and content areas.</li></ul>
<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Here is a partial list of the CCSS Anchor standards to be featured in the workshop:</div>
<ul style="font-size: 13px;"><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">CCS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">CCS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">CCS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">CCS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.</li></ul>
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<address style="font-style: italic; font-size: 13px;"><strong><span style="color: #800000"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Pat Naveau, WCOAGC President</em></span></span></span></strong></address> <address style="font-style: italic; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, helvetica, sans-serif">Gifted Services Coordinator</span></span></address> <address style="font-style: italic; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, helvetica, sans-serif">Coldwater Exempted Village Schools</span></span></address> <address style="font-style: italic; font-size: 13px;"><a href="mailto:Naveau.Pat@coldwatercavs.org" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Naveau.Pat@coldwatercavs.org</a></address></div>
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