Session Four
Language Arts & Social Studies
If you don’t know
where you’re going,
any road will
take you there.
-Africa American Proverb
Interactive Math Journaling
Share the strategies you
applied in your classrooms
with your table.
Today we will…
Integrating Technology Ideas and Links
Language Arts- strategies
Talking Chips
Gallery Walk
Social Studies
Writing to Learn
Writing to Demonstrate Knowledge
Make a Plan to Try it and Apply it!
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Integration of Technology
Writing Across the Curriculum
Ideas and Links
Ideas & Content
– for idea development
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for kid centered activities
– PowerPoint Silent Timer for Brainstorming or
3-minute fast write, etc.
– Harcourt’s
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offers some great ideas--check this
one out!
Organization
…Organizational ideas:
purposeful paragraphs, etc.
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– On-line Essay Mapping
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one click stop for graphic organizers
– Story Mapping Assistance
On-Line
Word Choice
– Word Choice at the
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Text Analyzer Feature
– Word Choice at the Online Writing Lab
– Free On-line Thesaurus, Think-Map Visual
Voice
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Voice Section:
– Use Great Speeches:
History Channel Great Speeches link
– Use
(it is free for Mac and Win)
Sound Companion, etc. to read your writing
into the computer and “play it back” listen for
your voice.
Sentence Fluency
– Sentence Fluency at
– Sentence Fluency at the
Online Writing Lab
Conventions
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Conventions:
– Free Rubric Creator: Teachers select from a wide variety of
options to create a customized rubric for any writing project.
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– Project Based Learning: Create printable checklists customized
for any writing project.
Strategies for Language Arts
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Writing to Learn Strategies
 STRATEGY:
Anticipation Guides
 STRATEGY: Before, During, and After Interactive
Notes
 STRATEGY: Column Notes
 T-chart
 Fact
or opinion
 Chapters/Selection Chart
 Q-Notes
Strategies for Language Arts
 STRATEGY:
Concept/Vocabulary Expansion
 Define
Conceptual Terms
 Descriptions for Different Purposes
 Possible Sentences
 LINK: List-Inquire-Note-Know
 STRATEGY:
 Compare
Compare/Contrast
and Contrast Organizers
 Venn Diagram
 Metaphorical Thinking
Strategies for Language Arts
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STRATEGY: Credibility of a Source
STRATEGY: FQIP: Focus, Questions, Image, Predict
STRATEGY: Inquiry Charts
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I Charts
KWLH Inquiry
STRATEGY: CRAFTS: Context, Role, Audience, Format,
Topic, and Strong Verb
STRATEGY: Consolidating Thought
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Summarizing
Synthesizing
Inferring
Discussion Web
Strategies for Language Arts
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STRATEGY: Main Idea
 Main
Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer
 Spider Map
 Cerebral Chart
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STRATEGY: Idea Funnel
STRATEGY: Journaling
 Dialectical
Journal
 Double Entry Journal/ Learning Log
 Meta-Cognitive/Reflective Journal
 Synthesis Journal
Strategies for Language Arts
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STRATEGY: Predict-O-Gram Writing
STRATEGY: Understanding Story
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Writing from the narrative frame
Narrative organizer: Story Map
Linear Array Story Organizer
STRATEGY: Previewing and Generating Text Purposes
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Previewing Text
Inform-Entertain-Persuade
Checking out the Framework
SOAPS (Subject, Occasion-Audience-Purpose-Speaker)
Strategies for Language Arts
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STRATEGY: Visualizing and Recording Mental
Images
STRATEGY: Write-Pair-Share-Write
STRATEGY: Cause-Effect
 Cause
and Effect organizer(s)
 Fishbone map
Try it and Apply it!
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Adopt practices of Highly Effective Teachers
Engage in professional conversation with your colleagues
about effective writing practices.
 Read books and journal articles about writing and teaching.
 Demonstrate writing by thinking aloud and writing in front of
your students
 Share with students the writing you do outside school: ask
them to do the same.
 Examine and evaluate student writing samples at your
grade level meeting.
 Observe other teachers’ writing classrooms, at your grade
level and across grade levels.
 Conference with students about their writing.
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