Teaching Writing: Grades 4-6

In this teacher-training course, you will learn from an experienced educator how to motivate and assist developing writers. You will get an overview of the writing basics, focusing on the importance of the task, audience, and purpose. You will also discover how to organize your materials to create an inviting writing environment.

This course will discuss each step of teaching writing and the strategies you can use with your students. You will also learn how to strengthen your students' writing using technology. Along the way, you'll develop engaging lessons for literary response, narrative writing, expository writing, and persuasive writing. You will discover the secrets of effective writing assessment as you learn about evaluation tools like portfolios and rubrics. The approaches you learn in this course will enable you to put everything you know about teaching writing into an applicable, workable format.

This course is offered in partnership with Ed2Go (Cengage Learning) and Ashland University. To enroll, please follow these two steps:

1. Register for course credit through Ashland University [below]. The graduate credit tuition is $321.

2. Register for access to the Ed2Go course materials using this link. The cost for this is $129.

The total cost for the course is $450 (comprised of $321 for graduate credit payable to Ashland University and $129 for course materials access payable to Ed2Go).

After completing the project and receiving your Certificate, you will submit these items to your instructor, who will then submit your final grade on your AU transcript. We will notify you by email once this is done, with instructions on how to view and order transcripts.