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nschmitz

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www.csulb.edu/...WritingtoLearnActivities.pdf

Overview of WTL

shared by nschmitz on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • nschmitz on 17 Sep 12
     
    This site covers assumptions about academic writing, writing myths, examples of write to learn activities, why it is effective, etc. I would use this site to present at a faculty meeting to help other teachers realize that writing across the curriculum is NOT research papers, it is learning about students and their knowledge by having them write short things such as an exit slip to check for understanding. WTL personalizes instruction.
Alison Puls

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writing2.richmond.edu/...wtl.html

shared by Alison Puls on 16 Mar 12 - Cached
  • business of education rather than that of schooling,
  • help students become life-long learners.
  • Language is the most powerful learning tool we have.
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  • so often teachers use writing as a way of testing.
  • a way of encouraging them to find out.
  • is demonstrably a process of learning.
  • do not include copying or filling in the blanks-
  • limited learning value.
  • writing activities help students discover connections, discern processes, raise questions and discover solutions.
  • incorporating the writing activity into the lesson, allowing students to see directly or indirectly how the writing seeks to enhance the learning objectives.
  • call on several of them to read,
  • orces them to pay attention to how they have stated their ideas and encourages them to look at their written words.
  • Do not make judgmental comments
  • either good or bad,
  • A simple "Thank you for sharing"
  • Lori Willert on 16 Mar 12
     
    The following write-to-learn activities have been excerpted from Writing Across the Curriculum's Resource Binder for participating faculty. Many of the activities listed are so common in composition theory and pedagogy that their original source cannot be traced.
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  • Sue Bestul on 16 Mar 12
     
    Provides Write-to-Learn activities from the Writing Across the Curriculum's Resource Binder. Its topics include: Free Writing and Focused Free Writing, Entry Slips/Exit Slips, Reader-Response Writing, The Sentence/Passage Springboard, Writing Definitions to Empower the Student, Student-Formulated Questions, The Short Summary, Group Writing Activities, Dialectical/Double Entry Notebooks, Microthemes, Answer the Question!, Clarification/Review Letters The section on Questions challenges students/teachers to write questions that "explore" rather than provide quick responses. The Sentence/Passage Springboard shows an example of a sentence from a literary text that is difficult to understand, and different people adding their interpretation of that passage as well as commenting on the previous person's interpretation.
  • Holly Thompson on 18 Mar 12
     
    This website gives many examples of write to learn strategies.
  • Jill Hulsing on 15 Sep 12
     
    The main page has some basic information about W2L, similar to what we have been discussing, but at the end there are some suggested activities that look good. 
  • Alison Puls on 16 Sep 12
     
    This website provides an overview of some of the information from out text. It might be a great way to share some of the W2L strategies with colleagues without the book.
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