Use writing to facilitate student learning
Flipbook chapter on Write-to-Learn activities in ELA

Dip into the chapter on using Writing-to-Learn activities to teach English/communications class content here. All the examples are on writing mechanics topics, which are notoriously hard to teach with standard classroom techniques. Using informal writing forces students to think more deeply than traditional exercises that have a single right answer.

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Or learn more about Shape Learning, Reshape Teaching: An English Teacher's Guide to Using Informal Writing with Teens and Adults.

Or you can find out more about the uses of informal writing for free on these pages:

• A daily writing prompt is as close as your curriculum.

• A daily writing prompt belongs in your writing skills exercise program.

• Formative assessment via informal writing is quick, easy, authentic

• Formative assessments for the English grammar teacher

• Formative evaluation makes short work of improving writing.

• Informal writing is best assessed formatively, graded rigidly.

• Informal writing: a multifunction tool with many aliases.

• Informal writing prompts multi-task for busy writing teachers.

• Informal writing prompts about homework beat homework.

• Reading comprehension activities: a reading journal

• Informal writing aids in classroom management