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Webb, Kurt – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Presents a student assignment which involves interviewing a family member and then drawing images and writing a description of their advice. Includes completed assignments from two students. (SR)
Descriptors: Assignments, Family Influence, Freehand Drawing, Interviews
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Presents two writing activities for math class that help students explore contexts for multiplication and write multiplication stories. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes an activity used with a fifth-grade mathematics class in which students solved a problem and wrote a convincing argument to prove their solution made sense. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Scali, Nancy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes a project in which kindergarten students used maps and computers to create a history on their own community. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Kindergarten Children, Local History, Maps
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Presents three activities that use literature as a springboard for the study of history/social science and as a prompt for original writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies
Reissman, Rose – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Offers 2 favorite writing activities for the computer lab: (1) students write about 100 words of the beginning and end of a favorite fiction book, while another student fills in the middle; and (2) students choose from 1 of 3 plot twists, write at least 5 sentences, and then write 3 more plot twists for the next student. (SR)
Descriptors: Computers, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Writing Assignments
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Provides specific writing activities to be used with seven different books in the context of both primary and intermediate grade level writing instruction. (HB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, Higher Education
Reissman, Rose – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes how a teacher integrated an audio cassette version of a Ray Bradbury story into a computer-supported creative writing project in her seventh-grade literature class. (SR)
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Creative Writing, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Steenbergen, Neil Van – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Presents the first of a series of four articles that offer ideas and activities that can help students see the relevancy of social science in their lives. Focuses on family issues. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Family Life, Family Problems, Family Relationship
Marcus, Stephen – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes the Polaroid Education Program. Discusses ways to incorporate instant photography and writing into a range of subject areas. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Photography
Davis, Peter – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes an assignment in which ninth graders created a storybook or a textbook for children in grades 4-6 that would link 4 core subjects: math, English, science, and anthropology. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Grade 9, Interdisciplinary Approach
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a range of classroom writing activities to go along with three books for children or adolescents: "On My Honor" (Marion Dane Bauer), "Knots on a Counting Rope" (Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault), and "Piggybook" (Anthony Browne). (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities
Webb, Kurt – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a project in which students combined personal narratives, drawings, and Japanese woodblock prints. Includes three examples of students' stories and prints. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Secondary Education
Polin, Elane – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a writing assignment in which students write (and send) a letter to a famous person of their choosing. Notes one student's seriousness about the project and the usefulness of peer editing in revising. (SR)
Descriptors: Editing, Elementary Secondary Education, Letters (Correspondence), Peer Teaching
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes two activities in a second-grade class that use drawing and writing to explore fractions. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions
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