This link takes you to a document containing a graphic organizer and directions for a W2L strategy called 4-2-1 Free Write. While it's not a strategy we'll be covering in class, it looks like a good one!

This is a word to text site that may assist those students with access to technology who have a hard time getting thoughts down on paper. Google Chrome is required. If interested in this, http://ctrlq.org/dictation/ is another option.

Here are several ideas for formative assessment, many of which are Write to Learn activities!

A fun blog post comparing Formative Assessment to "Angry Birds"

Here's a variation to the Written Conversation strategy you'll be implementing this week!

I found it timely to receive this information; Poll Everywhere now allows you to upload images, Math Equations, as well as Sub and Superscripts for voting.

In reference to a comment below regarding Magnet Summaries, there are a lot of really good summarizing strategies out there that would be Writing to Learn. This link to our AEA 267 ELA Website has a page devoted to summaries. Within the page you'll notice a few strategies are shared, and there is also a reference to the following book: Summarization in Any Subject: 50 Techniques to Improve Student Learning by Rick Wormeli. It is an awesome resource available through AEA 267's lending library.

This 2007 report highlights 11 effective, research-based elements of current writing instruction. Writing to Learn made the list!