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students are keen on getting their books some real exposure, marketing teams can be formed to research and make a social media plan or plan local promotional events. By this phase, there is typically such a sense of purpose and an " authentic job " for each student that the project runs itself, and I can troubleshoot and help the struggling students with greater ease as we wrap it all up.
Conclusions
Aside from being authentic, this kind of writing project hits almost all the other education field buzzwords— differentiated instruction, peer collaboration, inquiry-based learning, projectbased learning— while covering nearly all of the Common Core standards. but they definitely walk away respecting it, and have learned new strategies along the way. Lastly, I have described some of my favorite writing project plans, but there are many different options and websites that feature a long list of teachers ' favorite authentic writing projects. It ' s amazing how much intrinsic motivation and inspiration comes to students who know that their work will be published online, printed, and ultimately reach an audience outside their school.
-Dominic Carrillo teaches at the Anglo- American School of Sofia and is the author of YA novels The Improbable Rise of Paco Jones and The Unusual Suspects. dominicvcarrillo. com
Students seem to genuinely enjoy collaborating and come to understand the value of editing. I won ' t pretend that every student ends up loving the writing process,
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