Top 6 Learning to Write Strategies LW

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Top 6 Learning to Write Strategies (LW)
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LW1 Explicit teaching of writing
forms and processes
Explicit teaching occurs when teachers illustrate
or demonstrate for students

• how a piece of writing might look (form),
• required elements of a particular kind of writing
• specific writing strategies that can be used to
  accomplish a particular writing task

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LW1 Explicit teaching of writing
forms and processes
Explicit teaching occurs when teachers

• provide opportunities for writing to generate and
  negotiate meaning
• provide opportunities for writing to reflect,
  analyze, and communicate ideas

• Explicit teaching also explains to students
  effective thinking and writing processes that
  help them go about producing a particular piece
  of writing.

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LW1 Explicit teaching of writing
forms and processes

• It often involves the sharing of specific
  performance expectations with students in the
  form of rubrics, checklists, or other handouts
  for guidance and evaluation purposes.
• Explicit teaching strategies help students to
  understand what excellence looks like and the
  steps they need to take to achieve it and
  become aware of their own habits of thought
  while learning (Their).

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LW2 Writing to access prior
knowledge

• Writing to access prior knowledge encourages
  students to think about and articulate what they
  already know (or think they know) about a topic
  or activity.

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LW2 Writing to access prior
knowledge

• This is useful for two reasons
• Prior learning is the foundation upon which new
  learning occurs
• Accessing prior knowledge can help teachers
  identify and address students
  misconceptions about a topic
• Activities include journaling, sketching out
  ideas, or listing (word association)

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LW3 Writing to negotiate
meaning with self

• Writing to negotiate meaning with self strategies
  ask the student to enter into an internal
  dialogue using his or her prior knowledge and
  understanding to make sense of new information
  and concepts.

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LW3 Writing to negotiate
meaning with self

• Activities might include individual written
  analyses of research data or journal article
  reviews.
• This strategy is often used as a precursor to
  writing to negotiate meaning with others.

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LW4 Writing to negotiate
meaning with others

• Writing to negotiate meaning with others involves
  the student in a dialogue with others including
  peers, professionals, or the larger community, to
  come to a shared understanding of content.

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LW4 Writing to negotiate
meaning with others

• Activities might include small group writing
  activities with other students or synthesizing a
  variety of source materials to write an argument.

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LW5 Writing to reflect

• Writing to reflect is generally a free writing
  activity used to help students
• think about content,
• to connect what is being learned to the personal,
  or
• to encourage metacognition.

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LW5 Writing to reflect

• Reflective writing can be simply expressive, but
  it appears to be most useful in enhancing student
  learning when it is also analytical in nature.
• Reflective writing, while generally not evaluated
  for such things as grammar or punctuation, can be
  evaluated for analytical depth.

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LW6 Writing to communicate ideas and
information to others

• Writing to communicate ideas and information to a
  variety of audiences makes students more aware of
  discourse conventions of the writing community,
  as well as those of other discourse communities.

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LW6 Writing to communicate ideas and
information to others

• Students must acknowledge and use ways of
  communicating that are appropriate to a
  particular audience and purpose so that their
  thoughts are understood.
• Writing to communicate ideas and information to
  others also helps students solidify and clarify
  their own thoughts as they struggle to voice them
  publicly.

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Top 6 Learning to Write Strategies

• Explicit teaching of writing forms and processes
• Writing to access prior knowledge
• Writing to negotiate meaning with self
• Writing to negotiate meaning with others
• Writing to reflect
• Writing to communicate ideas and information to
  others

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