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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 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 • 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.
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
Are these…Alike? Different? Related? • Learning to write… • Writing to learn… • Writing in the disciplines…
Writing to Learn • Short • Informal • Tentative • Unfinished • What will writing to learn look like in your content area or discipline?
Writing in the Disciplines • Formal • Elaborate • Finished • What kind of writing is specific to your content area or discipline?
Pre Learning Phase • Writing to Get Ready to Learn • Informal • Looks like • Freewrites, admit slips, brainstorming, etc. • Assessed with + or -
During Learning Phase • Writing to Learn • Informal • Looks like • Journals, logs, double-entry journals, quick writes, short answer, etc. • Assessed with • Point system
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
Writing to Learn Strategies • Patterned Poems • Cinquains • Biopoems • Acrostic Poems • Learning Logs • Admit & Exit Slips • Unsent Letters • One Sentence Summary