Teaching Writing at LaGuardia

Resources for Faculty


Category: Integrating Reading and Writing

  • Edge of a MacBook Air, a paper calendar, and a set of notes together.

    Weekly Notes & Check-In Assignment for ENA / ENG 101 by J. Elizabeth Clark

    Marissa Grootes, Unsplash About this assignment (note to instructors): This assignment integrates reading and writing by providing a structure for students to take and share notes about what they have been studying. It also encourages them to return to notes taken in class and to rethink and revise the notes that are significant to them.…

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  • Orange, Red, Pink, Blue, and Green wires plugged into a circuit board.

    Connecting Reading to Writing Topic Sentences and Thesis Statements for ENA 101 by Marisa Klages-Bombich

    Image Credit: John Barkiple, Unsplash Faculty Facing content:  Goal: Integrating Reading and Writing Rationale: Students in ENA 101 appear to struggle greatly with reading in many arenas. In particular, in my experience students have trouble selecting appropriate source material to support their specific points, instead defaulting simply to any source that they find tangentially related…

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  • Small group sitting closely together with a close up on books balances on people's laps.

    Analyzing Quotations for Close Reading, Reading Comprehension, Student Engagement and Interaction in ENA 101 by Michelle Pacht

    Narrative Description (for faculty) This in-class small group assignment is designed to address several areas that ENA 101 students often find challenging: close reading, reading comprehension, student engagement and interaction, and a sense of ownership during class activities.  Students are asked to delve into a short quotation from an ENG 101 assigned reading, modeling and…

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  • Black and white street scene of protest with people with fists raised.

    Close Reading & Analysis: An Assignment to Support the Move from ENA/G101 to ENG102 by Leah Richards 

    Image Credit: Koshu Kunii, Unsplash Timeline: late in semester, almost entirely in class; we’ll take as long as we need for each part Text: a short work of social issue/social protest fiction (or poetry) that aligns with class themes; story will be printed out, with generous margins and space between lines to facilitate writing all…

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  • Wall of open books splayed one on top of another.

    ENA 101 Reading Logs by Jennifer Baumgartner

    Image Credit: Patrick Tomasso, Unsplash The goal of this project is to support ENA students in working with texts for the larger 101 class by scaffolding the process of analysis through a deep dive into the author, the intent of the piece, and any source used within the larger text. Often, students with weaker reading…

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