Welcome to the Writing Partners Wiki
This wiki is for teachers and other educators who are using (or interested in using) the Writing Partners program in their classes. Please feel free to browse through the links below and add any ideas you have.
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Overview
Welcome to Writing Partners, a program that pairs university writers with elementary or secondary school writers in a collaborative letter exchange. Generally, the college students encourage the children to strive for higher education and give an “inside peek” at college, while at the same time solidifying their own knowledge of the course content and the university itself. The children often teach the college students valuable lessons as well (e.g. about the socioeconomic realities of the Untied States). All students gain a stronger awareness of the role audience plays in writing, and they all gain much-needed practice writing. Studies continually show that the more frequently students write, the better the writing becomes. Writing Partners invites all partners to “Write to Succeed!”
History
Writing Partners is the brainchild of Write to Succeed, Inc., a community literacy non-profit organization founded by several graduate students in Fort Worth, Texas. Write to Succeed, Inc. has been offering literacy programs since 1997.
For more information, visit our old(er) website.
Writing Partners Documents
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Please use this space to post your own files related to Writing Partners. Please also use the comment section at the bottom of the page to discuss your Writing Partners experience.
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Comments (2)
Cathy Gabor said
at 8:31 pm on Jan 20, 2010
I'd love to hear how people are assessing Writing Partners. Are people gathering test scores from elementary school students who have an have not participated in Writing Partners? Are people teaching two sections of the same class, one with Writing Partners and one without and doing qualitative comparisons? I want to eventually add an assessment link, but for now, I'd like to use the comment section to get the conversation started.
Timothy Keenan said
at 8:38 pm on Jun 6, 2010
Hi, Cathy,
I'm considering how to incorporate work i'm doing as a nurse and parent-volunteer at a public school in Sacramento with this program.
Tim
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