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The Best-Kept Teaching Secret
How Written Conversations Engage Kids, Activate Learning, Grow Fluent Writers . . . K-12
September 2013 | 248 pages | Corwin
Your fast-track to student engagement
Everywhere Smokey Daniels speaks, there's one teaching strategy that teachers embrace above all others. That single method for transforming students from passive spectators into active learners . . . for evoking curiosity, inspiring critical thinking, and building powerful writers along the way. Now, that best-kept teaching secret is revealed: Written Conversations. Smokey and coauthor Elaine Daniels describe how to leverage these "silent writing-to-learn discussions" structure by structure
- Mini-memos
- Dialogue journals
- Write-arounds
- Digital discussions
. . . with detailed descriptions, lessons, and annotated student samples—making this the most practical teaching book in recent memory.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Letters Leverage Learning
Chapter 2. A Community of Correspondents
INTERCHAPTER: Prompts and Stems for Written Conversations
Chapter 3. Mini Memos
INTERCHAPTER: Is There Time for This?
Chapter 4. Dialogue Journals
INTERCHAPTER: The Assessment of Written Conversations
Chapter 5. Write-Arounds
Chapter 6. Digital Discussions
Works Cited
Index
