Writing to Learn is Learning to Think

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Using writing to learn activities in the content area classroom.

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Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think

TED 406 Teaching Secondary Reading

Spring 2011

Generally, writing-to-learn activities are short, impromptu or otherwise informal writing tasks that help students think through key concepts or ideas presented in a course.

Journals

Learning Logs

Annotation

Analyze the Process

Solve a real problem really

well.

Solve a problem.

Really solve a problem.

Solve a real problem well.

Letter Writing

What Counts As Fact?

Analysis of Events

Post Hoc

•what happened•why it happened•what it means

Analysis of Events

What If

How might the outcome of an actual event differ if one crucial condition were changed?

Analysis of Events

What If

How might the outcome of an actual event differ if one crucial condition were changed?

What If…

Analysis of Events

What If

How might the outcome of an actual event differ if one crucial condition were changed?

Process Analysis

Problem-solving

Descriptions

Literature review

Project Notebook

Others???

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