Students will be able to:

1) Generate a variety of texts in writing. Personal, formal/informal, and academic;

2) Receive and give (oral/written) feedback on written documents;

3) Talk about and discuss nature of reading & writing; and thus metalanguage to talk about language;

4) Talk about form/meaning relationship when creating a written text;

5) Read to find facts and opinions in a reading text;

6) Read to interpret a text and thus relate it to their world;

7) Read to write and write to be read;

8) Become a part of a writers' & readers' community.

9) Experience both timed and process writing.