Including FAT In Your Essays:
Figurative Language, Appositive Phrases, and Transitions
(Title inspired by Debbie Self, Little Axe Middle School)
This workshop will provide detailed lessons for teachers to empower student writers with concrete tools to help them improve word choice and voice in their writing. Through these lessons, students will learn how to harness proven writing techniques discovered in mentor texts during the drafting and revision stages of the writing process.
Michelle Waters
Midwest City Middle School
University of Oklahoma
ILAC English Education
michelleboydwaters@ou.edu
Oklahoma Writing Project
University of Oklahoma
338 Cade Center Drive
Room 190
Norman, OK 73019
For further Information Contact:
Attn: Audra Plummer
Co-Director of Inservice
(405)401-1348
owpcodirector@yahoo.com