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Writing to Learn in the Content Area Classroom

Writing to Learn in the Content Area Classroom. Writing facilitates learning by helping students to explore, clarify, and think deeply about the ideas and concepts they encounter in reading/text. Integrating Reading and Writing.

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Writing to Learn in the Content Area Classroom

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  1. Writing to Learn in the Content Area Classroom Writing facilitates learning by helping students to explore, clarify, and think deeply about the ideas and concepts they encounter in reading/text.

  2. Integrating Reading and Writing • There is no better way to think about a subject than to have the occasion to read AND write about it. • Reading and writing don’t necessarily guarantee thinking or learning. • How a teacher facilitates reading and writing in the content area classroom is key.

  3. Writing is Thinking • 1970’s…Janet Emig…writing is a mode of thinking • Multisensory nature of writing • Writing is an act of composing • Writing is a process of exploration and clarification • Content area teachers can use writing to have students think about what they will read or learn • Content area teachers can use writing to have students demonstrate understanding of what they have read or learned

  4. Are these…Alike? Different? Related? • Learning to write… • Writing to learn… • Writing in the disciplines…

  5. Writing to Learn • Short • Informal • Tentative • Unfinished • What will writing to learn look like in your content area or discipline?

  6. Writing in the Disciplines • Formal • Elaborate • Finished • What kind of writing is specific to your content area or discipline?

  7. Writing to Learn and the Instructional Framework

  8. Pre Learning Phase • Writing to Get Ready to Learn • Informal • Looks like • Freewrites, admit slips, brainstorming, etc. • Assessed with + or -

  9. During Learning Phase • Writing to Learn • Informal • Looks like • Journals, logs, double-entry journals, quick writes, short answer, etc. • Assessed with • Point system

  10. Post Learning Phase • Writing to demonstrate learning • Writing in the disciplines • Formal • Looks like • Essays, research papers, RAFT, content-specific writing, etc. • Assessed with • Rubrics

  11. Writing to Learn Strategies • Patterned Poems • Cinquains • Biopoems • Acrostic Poems • Learning Logs • Admit & Exit Slips • Unsent Letters • One Sentence Summary

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