Thursday, June 27, 2013

Real-Life Ideas

Okay, I'm taking a break from blogging about my book technically to add in two ideas I've seen recently.  And these aren't completely random.  One concept in my book is writing to learn, which is having students transact with the text to make meaningful connections, and gain a better understanding of concepts.  Here are two ideas I saw recently that I think are good examples of writing to learn.

 This one is on note taking, but I think it would really help students who struggle with note taking, which is, I think an example of writing to learn:
Photo: Content area note-taking anchor chart! http://pinterest.com/pin/2251868536670088/
This one came from:  http://pinterest.com/pin/2251868536670088/

 The other idea would be great for collaborative work.  I was thinking kids could find main ideas, identify character traits, create examples of a theory of...(sorry I am not a science person!), or put an open ended response to a math question on their post it, then come together and create the "group" answer.

This one was from:  http://pinterest.com/pin/2251868536661173/

 Anyways, I hope this wasn't too much of a tangent, I just really loved the ideas and thought they fit in with my book.
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  1. Miss HJune 27, 2013 at 8:46 PM

    I think these are both fantastic ideas! I really like the one about note taking. No one EVER taught me how to take notes, so I explored quite a bit before settling on "my" way. This is great for kids to keep track of main ideas in novels that they might have to later write an argumentative essay for. Great post and I think it was totally relevant!

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  2. UnknownJune 28, 2013 at 10:06 PM

    Great ideas, thank you for sharing them. I can immagine minimizing/simplified them down to the size of a large index card and being placed on a bulletin board as book reports for my second grade students to do as they read a book.

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