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Polin, Linda – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Argues that writing instruction should lead student writers to find their voice in their writing and that this will only happen if they write often for personal purposes and personal expression. (SR)
Descriptors: Free Writing, Secondary Education, Writing Assignments, Writing Improvement
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
Clark, G. Christopher – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes the Legends Project in Indiana in which a class collaboratively researches, writes, and illustrates a local legend and sends it via computers and modems to other classes across the state. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Mail, Grade 4
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
Hironaka, Janet H. – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes the Los Angeles Urbanscape Tour, in which the city of Los Angeles provides 11th graders with a living laboratory of the principles studied in-depth in their literature and social studies classrooms. Describes writing assignments which grew out of the tour. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 11, High Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
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
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