WRITING TO LEARN Renee Blackmon TEKS Resource System

WRITING TO LEARN Renee Blackmon TEKS Resource System Social Studies Program Manager

CARD SORT • Using the provided cards divide the cards into two categories. • The two categories are determined by the group.

Writing to learn Writing to Demonstrate Knowledge

YOU NEED PAPER AND PEN/PENCIL • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=u 6 XAPnu. Fj. Jc

Record Compare Revise

PROCESSING • How does your experience today relate to the article? • What does this process look like if you are lecturing, reading, analyzing an image, or conducting a lab? • How could you use the RCR in your classroom? • Are there ways you could scaffold teaching students how to use the RCR cycle? • How would you check for understanding during the process? • Are there any barriers to using this process?

WRITING • Most adults realize that they have to write something down to help them more easily recall the information later. This occurs not because the person now has a written record to reference, but because the act of writing causes the brain to process the information with more depth. • There is a strong link between writing and thinking. Writing serves as a process for refining thinking. • Writing is not the same as copying information, which can be easily without thinking deeply.

INTEGRATING WRITING TO LEARN • Interactive Notebooks • Student Journaling- reflecting on understanding/new insights/confusion/questions still lingering/want to know more about/finding hardest/connections to previous learning • Summary Breaks during lecture to record/process information

Learning is not what we present, but what students retain.