Writing Is Thinking: Strategies for All Content Areas

by Holly S. Atkins (Editor), Lin Carver (Editor)

Overview

In the instruction and learning process, the role writing plays has often been overlooked. Writing is thinking! It is a tool for learning in all content areas. The ever-growing body of brain research supports that learning to write transitions into writing to learn as students progress through upper elementary, middle, high school, and college. Writing is much more than the ability to craft an analytical essay. Writing has the potential to engage students in critical thinking and critical reflection as historians, mathematicians, scientists, or experts in any content area. Writing is Thinking explores methods and activities to effectively incorporate writing to help learners successfully master, analyze, apply, and express content knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475863246
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/30/2021
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.62(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Holly S. Atkins, PhD is associate professor of undergraduate education and chair of the undergraduate education department at Saint Leo University. She served for six years as co-director of the Tampa Bay Area Writing Project.

Lin Carver, PhD serves as the director of program approval in the college of education and social services and program administrator for the master’s in reading program at Saint Leo University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1- Writing-to-Learn- Lin Carver and Lauren Pantoja

Chapter 2- Writing with The Brain in Mind- Candace Roberts

Chapter 3- Writing as a Tool for Social Change- Ebony Perez and Christina Casanave

Chapter 4- Writing as a Snapshot of Thinking - Holly Atkins, Kim Higdon, & Nakita Gillespie

Chapter 5- Note-Taking versus Note-MAKING! - Carolyn Graham and Carrie Fallon-Johnson

Chapter 6- Springboards for Writing in Mathematics- Christine Picot

Chapter 7- Writing to Support Science Learning and Success- Laura Altfeld and Cheryl Berry

Chapter 8- Writing Like an Historian- Padraig Lawlor and Chantelle MacPhee

Chapter 9- Keeping it Real: Supporting Writers in the English/Language Arts Classroom- Holly Atkins and Lisa Delgado Brown

About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

The authors excelled in providing the reader with vignettes and strategies to facilitate their use of the writing process to enhance students’ critical thinking skills and content knowledge. Each cha​pter is intentionally focused with explicit tools to develop and enrich students’ knowledge and understanding. A must for teachers and teacher preparation programs.

Carol Todd

The authors model Respect: they tell readers the importance of using person-first language and bias-free writing; they explain how the brain works and what teachers can do to maximize learning; they remind readers that writing is thinking, and since we want our students to think about our content, we give them authentic reasons to write about our content.

Pat Daniel Jones