How can teachers and students co-create a responsive, flexible curriculum that fosters authentic literacy? No curriculum is perfect. All curricula need the creative and critical thinking of students and teachers to adapt and implement them in meaningful ways. How do teachers and students work with the curricula they may be given while still ensuring that students read texts that resonate with them and produce meaningful writing for multiple contexts? Participants in this interactive workshop will get hands-on experience adapting the California State Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) materials for their context. By exploring ERWC’s rhetorical approach to texts, participants learn how the ERWC modules prepare students to be adaptive communicators and critical thinkers who can transfer learning to new tasks and settings. Participants also explore ERWC resources that can be used with existing curriculum, including protocols for collaborative discussion and mini-units on genre, argument, and the rhetorical situation.
English teacher Los Alamos High School and Coach, California State University Expository Reading and Writing Course, LEAP Secondary ELA Methods, California State University Expository Reading and Writing Course
