Effective Ways to Raise Writing Scores – Part 2
By Dr. Sandra Doran

Effective Ways to Raise Writing Scores – Part 2
By Dr. Sandra Doran

Learn how to lead students to develop a controlling idea, summarize relevant parts of a passage, and create an effective conclusion to tie the writing together. Become familiar with the distinctly Adventist resources available on the Three Angels for Kids website.

-Taught by Dr. Sandy Doran

This interactive course provides teachers with materials from Three Angels for Kids; teachers discover how to ground students in the three angels’ messages while making them better writers and critical thinkers.

In this course, teachers will:

• Gain immediate access to two (2) downloadable documents for use in helping students raise their writing scores:
  • Grades 5-6: Shared Writing: Essay One
  • Text-Based Prompt-Sharing Gospel
• Become familiar with the distinctly Adventist resources from Three Angels for Kids
• Learn to lead students to:
  • Develop a controlling idea
  • Use sources to provide evidence
  • Select appropriate pieces of text for direct quotations
  • Summarize relevant parts of a passage
  • Use transitional devices to connect ideas
  • Create an effective conclusion to tie the writing together
  • Make the connection between the three angels’ messages and real-world stories

Effective Ways to Raise Writing Scores-Part 1 by Dr. Sandra Doran is a pre-requisite for this course.

NOTE: You must complete a brief online quiz for the lesson prior to completing the course. The quiz is computer-scored and a score of 75% or higher is required to pass the lesson. If you score less than 75%, you must redo the lesson and resubmit the quiz for grading. There is no cost to redo the lesson and you are given three (3) chances for redo/resubmit. There is not a pause/resume feature in a quiz. Once you have started a quiz, you must complete it. An incomplete quiz will be counted as an attempt.