74 : Pre-Writing Activities

Chapter 8 in Daniels, Harvey, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke.  Content-area Writing: Every Teacher’s Guide.  Portmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007.  Print.       These are examples of activities one can run to prepare students to create public writing pieces.  To see the difference between public writing pieces and write-to-learn pieces, go here. To see an overview […]

72: Writing to Learn (2 of 2)

Chapter 4 in Daniels, Harvey, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke.  Content-area Writing: Every Teacher’s Guide.  Portmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007.  Print.       4 Writing to Learn (WTL) Strategies (for more WTL’s go here or here or here)   Nonstop write: students write nonstop in response to a prompt for set time (3-5 min) write in sentences […]

71: Writing to Learn (1 of 2)

Chapter 4 in Daniels, Harvey, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke.  Content-area Writing: Every Teacher’s Guide.  Portmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007.  Print.       4 Writing to Learn (WTL) Strategies (for more WTL’s go here or here or here) Written Conversations students process material by passing notes to each other about the material wonder if technology like Twitter, Todaysmeet, […]