A writing-to-learn strategy is one that teachers employ throughout and/or at the end of a lesson to engage students and develop big ideas and concepts.
Writing-to-learn fosters critical thinking and learning. It is writing that uses impromptu, short/informal writing tasks designed by the teacher and included throughout the lesson to help students think through key concepts and ideas. Attention is focused on ideas rather than correctness of style, grammar or spelling. It is less structured than disciplinary writing.
This approach frequently uses journals, logs, micro themes, responses to written or oral questions, summaries, free writing, notes, and other writing assignments that align to learning ideas and concepts.
Social Studies examples:
1. Generating interactions between schemata and texts
2. Introducing a famous person
3. Learning Logs
4. List-Group-Label
5. Micro-themes writing summaries
6. Cornell system - note taking
7. QAR - Question-Answer relationship
8. RAFT - Role, Audience, Format, and Topic
9. Reading Response Journal
10. Skimming and scanning
11. Strip stories - story board graphics
12. Summarizing
13. Thinking maps to outlines
14. Word bank writing
Format
1. Strategy: Writing Journal - Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
What does it do?
Allows students to brainstorm on writing ideas, in a manner similar to a Sketch Journal.
How to implement:
xxxxx
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2. Strategy: Visual Thinking Strategies - Dance, music, theatre, visual arts
What does it do?
How to implement:
Tally to date:
4 all arts
1 dance
1 music
1 theatre
2 visual arts
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3. Strategy: Digital Story-telling - Visual arts, music
What does it do?
How to implement:
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4. Strategy: Artist Statements - Dance, music, theatre, visual arts
What does it do?
How to implement:
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5. Strategy: Learning Statements - Dance, music, theatre, visual arts
What does it do?
How to implement:
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6. Strategy: Word sculptures - Visual arts, theatre
What does it do?
How to implement:
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7. Strategy: Dance stories - Dance
What does it do?
How to implement:
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8. Strategy: Multi-modal composition - Dance, music, theatre, visual arts
What does it do?
How to implement:
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9. Strategy:
What does it do?
How to implement:
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10. Strategy:
What does it do?
How to implement:
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11. Strategy:
What does it do?
How to implement:
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12. Strategy:
What does it do?
How to implement:
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13. Strategy:
What does it do?
How to implement:
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14. Strategy:
What does it do?
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15. Strategy:
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