Creating maps allows students to turn their prewriting into a visual representation of their ideas.
Category: prewriting
Five Ways to Use Sketching in Writing Workshop
Bring sketching into your workshop to help students visualize details and reflect on the writing process.
Coaching the Overwhelmed Writer
Sticky notes and index cards can help overwhelmed writers take things bit by bit.
Introducing Argumentative Writing with Infographics
Like Rebekah, Allison, and probably many of you, I am a big fan of Kelly Gallagher’s work. In fact, a colleague and I structured our freshman curriculum to mirror the writing scaffold in his book Write Like This: our first freshman writing assignments encourage students to “express and reflect” in personal narratives, assignments throughout the […]
Drop Everything and Play: Creating Opportunities for Creativity
The goal of dropping everything and playing is to transform the fear of a new text into an opportunity for pure creativity.
Writer’s Telephone – an Information-Gathering, Idea-Nuturing Strategy
I feel like I’ve been engaged in a pedagogical ancestry project recently — mapping my teaching forebears through generations. In floods of professional books, blogs, Tweets, and chats, these ideals into which I have become so deeply entrenched sometimes lose their original source. Like a game of educational Telephone, the message gets translated and retranslated, […]
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