“To get true learning power, kids must put ideas into their own words.”
p 26 Content Area Writing – Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, Nancy Steineke
Writing to learn is different to high stakes, public writing. Writing To Learns are:
Short;spontaneous;exploratory;informal;personal;one draft;unedited; and ungraded.
This semester, in my role as literacy coach, I am introducing some of the Writing to Learn strategies which are explained in the above book, Content Area Writing.