Teaching Reading and Writing with The Change Agent

Submitted by Leecy Wise on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 10:29
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In a recent bulletin, you were invited to attend a free Webinar TODAY on using the "Hair" issue of The Change Agent (a magazine of adult student writings) in the classroom. To still register and join that session, CLICK HERE! SIGN UP for the Webinar today, and get ready to return here to build your writing toolkit for students!
 
The Change Agent, an Adult Education Magazine for Social Justice, provides socially relevant content, powerful student writing that inspires discussion, and ready-to-use, CCR-aligned lesson plans – all oriented toward a multi-level audience. The site offers several free resources, in addition to very low subscription choices, to support your reading and writing instruction with prompts and plans that also encourage reflection and cognitive development.
 
Following today's Webinar, on Thursday, and Friday of next week, April 19, and 20, you are being offered another free gift: a lively discussion right in our own communities on the free resources listed for you by The Change Agent, led by the Presenter, Cynthia Peters. In that discussion, we will explore best practices in getting adults at all levels to express their views and, who knows, perhaps get published! 
 
Change from previous dates: I previously announced the Change Agent discussion dates as Wed, Th, and F.  However, since we will have another engaging session starting with Monday's Webinar, "2nd in Series on Teaching Academic Writing to English Learners," we will postpone starting the discussion on The Change Agent resources to next Thursday and Friday. That way, you can completely focus on each at a time!

Please be sure to join us for both fantastic discussions that will definitely enrich your toolkit of tricks in our trade!

The follow-up discussion on Free Agent resources will be announced on Wednesday as "Teaching Reading and Writing with The Change Agent." Stay tuned. 
 
If you have topics/questions that you would like discussed after this Webinar, post them here, and we'll treat them royally! Leecy
 
Leecy Wise, Moderator
LINCS Reading and Writing CoP
leecywise@gmail.com

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I have just attended the highly-informative Webinar posted for today on the "Hair" issue of The Change Agent. I hope that some of you were able to attend. There is much more to hair than you would imagine. It has racial implications and emotional connections that you might never have considered.    CLICK HERE and then the ANNOUNCEMENTS title at the top of the page to access the link to today's Webinar in order to review all of the great tips for using text at different levels to encourage reflection and writing on many topics. Even if you don't subscribe to The Change Agent, you will pick up a lot of ideas on how to use articles anywhere to help students find main ideas, comment on great images, apply thoughtful grammar, and much more among students at all levels!    Cynthia Peters, Presenter, will join us next Thursday and Friday to discuss very useful ideas on how to implement writing activities matched to the engaging free resources on the site. Stay tuned for the Discussion Topic "Teaching Reading and Writing with The Change Agent," which will be posted on Wednesday of next week, following our other Webinar and discussion, the second series of "Teaching Academic Writing to English Learners. That topic will also address needs among ABE learners in our groups.    I'm excited! Leecy    Leecy Wise, Moderator LINCS R&W Community of Practice