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Smuggling Writing
Strategies That Get Students to Write Every Day, in Every Content Area, Grades 3-12



November 2015 | 256 pages | Corwin

Is it possible to sneak more writing into your already-jammed curriculum? Yes! With this cache of classroom-tested ideas, you have all you need to make writing-to-learn a daily habit for students that deepens their content understanding and creates learners ready to take on all of the world’s information. 

Smuggling Writing shows how to integrate writing seamlessly into your lesson plans with 32 written response activities that help students process information and ideas in short, powerful sessions. The authors invigorate time-tested tools like GIST, Herringbone, and Anticipation Guides, and organize them into sections on Vocabulary and Concept Development, Comprehension, Discussion, and Research & Inquiry so you can select and use them to maximum effect. 

Here are the success-ensuring how-to’s that accompany each strategy:

  • A step-by-step process ensures students use the strategy before, during, and after reading/learning so they “own” the strategy and can track their thinking
  • Engaging digital applications, including Story Impression with Bubbl.us, Reading Road Map with Prezi, Possible Solutions with Padlet, CLVG with Brain Pop
  • Sample lessons showing both traditional and online formats, taking the guess work out of trying these new digital tools 
  • Ideas for “smuggling” additional writing opportunities into or after the lessons, ensuring that students’ writing skills improve
  • Connections to Common Core State Standards

With all the heady talk of what it’s going to take for students to read, write, and analyze across multiple sources, it’s nice to know that there is a book that shows how big gains will come from “writing small” day by day. 

 
 

 

 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
A Matrix for Using This Book
 
Section I. Vocabulary and Concept Development
Scenario: A Look Inside a Middle School Classroom

 
What the Research Tells Us About Vocabulary and Concept Development

 
 
Strategy 1. Frayer Model Plus
 
Strategy 2. Semantic Feature Analysis Plus
 
Strategy 3. Vocabulary Cards
 
Strategy 4. Vocabulary-Concept Journals
 
Strategy 5. Vocabulary Self-Awareness Chart
 
Section II. Comprehension
Scenario: A Look Inside an Elementary School Classroom

 
What the Research Tells Us About Comprehension and Close Reading

 
 
Strategy 6. List–Group–Label–Write
 
Strategy 7. Book Reviews/Book Trailers
 
Strategy 8. Generating Interactions Between Schemata and Text (GIST)
 
Strategy 9. Extended Anticipation Guide
 
Strategy 10. Possible Sentences
 
Strategy 11. Story Impressions
 
Strategy 12. Reading Road Map
 
Strategy 13. Say Something and Summarize
 
Strategy 14. Somebody–Wanted–But–So–Then
 
Strategy 15. Exchange Compare Writing
 
Strategy 16. RAFT Writing
 
Strategy 17. So What?
 
Strategy 18. Found Poetry Summaries
 
Strategy 19. Sticky Note Maps
 
Strategy 20. Double Entry Journal/Dialectic Response Journal
 
Section III. Research and Inquiry
Scenario: A Look Inside a High School History Classroom

 
What the Research Tells Us About Inquiry and Research

 
 
Strategy 21. 1–2–3 Research
 
Strategy 22. Collaborative Listening Viewing Guide (CLVG)
 
Strategy 23. Herringbone
 
Strategy 24. Inquiry Charts
 
Strategy 25. KWL Plus
 
Strategy 26. Multiple Source Research Strategy
 
Strategy 27. Web Page Evaluation Tools
 
Section IV. Discussion
Scenario: A Look Inside a Middle School Science Classroom

 
What the Research Tells Us About Classroom Discussion

 
 
Strategy 28. Discussion Webs
 
Strategy 29. Talking Drawings
 
Strategy 30. Tea Party
 
Strategy 31. Think–Pair–Share–Write
 
Strategy 32. Ticket to Talk

“Smuggling Writing shows teachers how to incorporate written response activity results into lesson plans that empower students in grades 3-12 to take charge of their own reading and writing growth. The idea is that more writing can be added to even the heaviest curriculum approach, and this is supported through classroom-tested lesson plans that show students how to use a particular set of strategies in all of their educational pursuits.”

Midwest Book Review, April 2016
Key features

·         Includes 30+ process-oriented literacy strategies in the areas of vocabulary and concept development, comprehension, research and inquiry, and discussion

·         Provides a quick-reference matrix that shows, at a glance, each strategy, its associated “literacy strand,” relevant digital tools, sample lesson details, and related standards

·         Structures the strategies in such a way that they can be used as metacognitive tools for teachers and students to use in learning across all areas of the curriculum

·         Demonstrates how to seamlessly integrate writing into your lessons while simultaneously teaching content—any content—from math to science to social studies to literature

·         Presents strategies in a scaffolded manner to help students think about, process, read and recall from varied sources—both traditional and digital

·         Breaks each strategy down clearly into instructional phases: prereading, reading, and postreading

·         Illustrates how the strategies can be used with and applied to many forms of both informational and narrative text

·         Shows how teachers can model instruction for students through whole-class instruction and discussion and then transfer that to small groups and pairs of students who work collaboratively

·         Includes digital applications, “smuggling writing” tips, standards-based connections, and samples lessons for the strategies

Sample Materials & Chapters

Matrix For Using This Book

Preface

Section I


For instructors

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