Writing

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• Have students brainstorm on a topic.  Have them practice generating ideas.

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• Practice quickly organizing your thoughts and write them down on paper. 

1. Cubing

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   • Form of Quick Write where the emphasis is on different purposes of writing for the same topic. 

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• Focuses on fluency and the flow of written words.  Its useful because it relates to the work place.

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• Students record their experiences in a journal.  It helps them write better. 

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• decide clear learning purposes to engage students.

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• Decide this to maximize student learning. 

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• Make sure all of the following things are present and coherent in a student writing. ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, presentation

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• Once you know the topic give students enough knowledge they can succeed in writing the topic.

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• have them prepare outilnes, drafts, webs, and other things to help them figure out what they want to say

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• Have students plan before they write.  Give them tools to organize their ideas.

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• Encourage students to just write and get their thoughts down on paper.  Encourage rough drafts

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• Allow students to use technology as a way to differentiate in the way planning essays goes.  allow students to type, mind map, spellcheck, etc

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• Give the students some sort of feedback on their writing.  If not they do not learn anything

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• Focus on corrections such as grammar and spelling during the first draft.