- Engages students in learning
- A means to evaluate mastery of content or of written form
- Forms and extends thinking
- Engages students in becoming invested in their ideas and learning
- Writing-to-learn : Literary modes, free writing, sentence-combining, rubrics
- Students engage with the text in order to understand it.
- Must be planned with a purpose and audience…authentic
- Discover, connect, clarify, and communicate through writing.
- Daily writing
Students should be writing often and at extended opportunities.
If students get to high school and are struggling writers, we must find ways to close the gap. No excuses.
High school students need multiple opportunities to use journals and logs. They need to write informational and argumentative pieces, as well as research papers. They need a chance to write creatively. (I think we have lost the creative writing along the way…)
Read the previous posts about writing in math and science classes for suggestions.
We cannot continue to ignore the writing research. Students won’t learn to write if they never get the opportunity. One doesn’t learn to swim without jumping in the water. Same with the skill of writing.
I challenge you to read many of my posts at wisewritingconsulting.com and choose some new ideas to try. You can do it. Happy writing.