Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: An Online Learning Experience

Cathy Fleischer and Sarah Andrew-Vaughan

Sponsored through a NWP grant, we’ve created an online learning experience designed to help teachers think about genre study and the Unfamiliar Genre Project (UGP)—concepts we explore in our co-authored text Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres. While we’ve completed part one—an online book study—we welcome you to join us this summer as we create our own UFGs and share them with others across the country.

Want to learn more about the Unfamiliar Genre Project?

• Listen to this interview on NWP radio.

• Or check out the Heinemann site to purchase the book or read Chapter 4, "Unpacking the Unfamiliar Genre Project."

• You can also read samples of our students' projects (click on the "Companion Resources" menu).

Let us know you’re interested by filling out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/viewform?hl=en&id=19G7ObjtR2pirdOLhjMZsktuh6dsn9ZcelGZY4NFvQNA