Write, Think, Learn: Tapping the Power of Daily Student Writing Across the Content Areas / Edition 1

by Mary Tedrow

Overview

Find out how to create the climate and space for everyday student writing. In this new co-publication with MiddleWeb, award-winning teacher Mary Tedrow shows you how to encourage students to integrate daily writing into their lives, leading to improved critical thinking skills, increased knowledge of subject areas, and greater confidence in written expression. This practical guide will help you consider the unique needs of your students, while still meeting state standards.

You’ll discover how to…

• Develop classroom routines and activities that invite creativity and self-expression
• Teach writing methods that can be used across different grade levels and all content areas
• Challenge students to examine their own writing processes for thinking and problem solving
• Evaluate written work in a way that emphasizes growth over grades

Many exercises, prompts, and attempts at thinking found in the book can be easily adapted for use both in and out of the classroom. Whether you are a new or experienced teacher, Write, Think, Learn will enable you to make writing come alive for all your students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138052772
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mary K. Tedrow is a National Board Certified Teacher of English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood with twenty-six years of classroom experience. She directs the Shenandoah Valley Writing Project housed at Shenandoah University.

Table of Contents

EResources vi

Meet the Author vii

Acknowledgments viii

Preface: How to Read This Book x

1 Why Add Writing?: Moving to Community and Authentic Learning 1

2 Where to Begin?: Motivating Students to Accept the Daily Writing Challenge 15

3 What Will We Write About?: Understanding the Characteristics of Effective Prompting 44

4 Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?: Prompting Reflection and Goal Setting With an Emphasis on Inquiry 57

5 Wait. What? You Want My Opinion?: Helping Students Locate Their Own Thinking 79

6 How Does Writing Support Course Objectives?: Teaching the Curriculum Through Writing 90

7 Why Are These Essays So Hard to Read?: Scaffolding Student Products by Collecting and Brainstorming Before Assigning 116

8 What About Grading?: Assessing Daily Writing for Growth That Makes the Invisible Visible 133

Afterword 149

Works Cited 151

Appendix A Additional Prompting 154

Appendix B Reflecting and Goal Setting 157

Appendix C Ancillary Handouts 173

Editorial Reviews

"Mary Tedrow's book Write,Think, Learn offers an excellent collection of practical instructional strategies teachers can use to help their students become better writers. I know that I will be using many of them myself!"—Larry Ferlazzo, English and Social Studies Teacher, EdWeek blogger, and author of several books, including Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies to Help Students Thrive in School and Beyond

"The best advice ever for writers is the Roman maxim, 'nulla dies sine linea'—never a day without a line. In this practical and motivating book, master teacher Mary Tedrow shows how to use daybooks to build fluency, engage course content, and reflect on learning. Through daily practice, students come to view writing as a natural form of expression—not an attempt to fit someone else’s imposed formula."—Thomas Newkirk, Award-Winning Author, Educator, and Professor Emeritus, University of New Hampshire

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