Making Every Moment Count Writing in Every Class, Every Day Heather Bridgers Candace Heath Lisa Handline Amy Pridgen Pender County Schools “Why should students write throughout the day?” Record your answer on the sticky note at your seat Write your grade level in the corner

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What? So What? Now What? What If? O Chart or scaffolded approach with questions O Use of vocabulary/concepts/images O Requires O Concrete knowledge O Evaluation of importance and relationship to other concepts/events/problems O Critical thinking to project potential outcomes/effects

“How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” ~ E.M. Forster

Research Based Practice O Writing about the texts students read improves their comprehension and understanding of content by 93%. O Teaching students the processes for constructing texts allows them to deconstruct other texts. O Understanding and comprehension are improved by how frequently students write. ~ Writing to Read Alliance for Excellent Education O Writing in mathematics gives me a window into my students’ thoughts that I don’t normally get when they just compute problems. It shows me their roadblocks, and it also gives me, as a teacher, a road map.” ~Using Writing in Mathematics to Deepen Student Learning Maggie Johnson

Writing O Writing to Learn O Writing to Demonstrate Learning O Writing for Authentic Purposes

Writing to Learn What it is What it is NOT O Facilitated thinking O Processing O Low-stakes O Mechanical O Rote O Just writing to a prompt

Let’s Add Some Glue Cite Textual Evidence! An example is... The reason why... I know this because... According to the text......because...

Exit Ticket O Formative Assessment O Quick O Begin with the end in mind O Pre-made O Digital O Dry erase boards O Card stock/sheet protectors O Sticky notes EXAMPLES:

Exit Ticket Samples

Quick Write O Quickly reflect on learning O Use before, during or after a lesson O Differentiated O Critical thinking O Making connections O Journals O Notecards O Digital O 60 second write EXAMPLES:

Quick Write Samples

The Answer is… O Critical thinking O Question & Answer relationship O Assessment (formative or summative) O Early finishers O Alone, partners, groups O QUICK! O Notebook paper O Chart paper O Poster board O Pocket chart EXAMPLES:

The Answer is…

O Mental Math Problem: Multiply 3 x 2; divide by 2; add 12, subtract 5. What is the number? O Subtraction Word Problem: Harry Potter was sending 837 letters to Hogwarts to ask if he could teach there. If he was rejected 827 times, how many letters would he be waiting to hear from? O Addition/Subtraction: Grace and Jakob each counted up their pets. Grace has 6 pets and Jakob has the same amount of pets as Grace. They added the number of their pets together. After they added them together, they wanted to find out how many more pets did they need to get a total of 22 pets? O Multiplication: Sawyer and Ocean each get one scoop of food every hour. If I gave them food for five hours, what is the total amount of food given?

The Answer is…

What and Why T Chart O T-Chart O Process O Justify O Explain O Formative or summative assessment

Anchor Charts What and Why T Chart

VERTICAL: Samples What and Why T Chart

What and Why T Chart What Why ELA O Character Trait (What) and Why O Prediction (What) and Why O Inference (What) and Why O Word choice (What) and Why O Text Structure (What) and Why What Why SS O Effect (What) and Why O Events (What) and Why O Conflict (What) and Why What Why SCI O Effect (What) and Why O Events (What) and Why

Word Splash O T-Chart O Process O Justify O Explain

Anchor Charts Word Splash O academic vocabulary O Purposeful reading O Process content O Spiral grammar skills (ex: use 2 adjectives, circle your verbs, make a compound sentence)

Word Splash Samples

C.P.R.

O Scaffolds content O Make sense of the unknown through the known O Justify O Make it personal O Formative assessment

Anchor Charts C.P.R.

RACE – Written Response with Text Evidence! O R- Restate the Question O A- Answer ALL parts of the question O C – Cite Evidence O E – Edit and extend

Samples of RACE (Third Grade Students)

Other Variations… ACE! O A – Answer the Question completely O C – Cite Evidence O E – Edit and Extend

RAP *Variation for Lower Grades O R – restate the question O A – Answer the Question O P – PROVE IT!

Sample 1 st Grade Question

1 st Grade Student Response

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