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Notre Dame Catholic School

Welcome to the

Writing Lab

Contact Mrs. Delehanty at ldelehanty@notredameparish.net

The Writing Lab

“We teach students how to read books, but not how to read their own writing.”

Donald Graves, A Fresh Look at Writing

Notre Dame has developed a program that has the students asking, “What do I like about my writing?” and “How can I make it better?”

Highlights of the Program

Present writing skills to children from Pre-School to Grade 8
Base lessons on the Six Traits of Writing (Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions)
Assess writing to make students better revisionists
Refer to literature for models
Experiment with writing practices
Provide strategies for revision
Teach peer conference techniques
Follow the Writing Process
Apply lessons to different types of writing: descriptive, narrative, persuasive, expository, memoirs, book reviews, essays

Meet Mrs. Lynn Delehanty
Mrs. Delehanty has a B.S. in elementary education from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College and an M.S. from Purdue. Twelve years of classroom experience have included grades 2, 4, 5, and 6 with a special emphasis in language arts, newspaper-in-the-classroom, and computers. To help boost writing scores, she then developed a writing program eight years ago for students in Pre-School to 8th grade. This is coupled with her work in remediation/acceleration at Notre Dame.

Outside of school, she is a member of the Northwest Indiana Writing Project and provides in-service workshops to teachers in the area to spread the word about writing and revision.