Exploring Ideas Through Writing

Exploring Ideas through Writing is a great way to teach metacognition. Students can spend 3-5 minutes writing about new ideas, reflecting on experiences, and summarizing processes. This activity gives students another chance to write in class and only takes a few minutes.

Exploring Ideas Through Writing Step-By-Step Process

Plan your lesson

Learning
Pathway

Planning Journal

Teach the skill

Student Activity

Interactive Lesson

Differentiate and support learning

Reading Rubrics

Assess and track growth

Rubric

Performance Tracker

Teacher Reflection

Literacy Standards In Action

We've mapped our literacy lessons and reading, speaking, and writing skills to state standards, Common Core, and NGSS. The standards are "the what" to teach. Our lessons are "the how" to meet the expectations defined by the standards. Click on the links below to view our quick reference table that maps standards to literacy lessons.

SL6

Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Exploring Ideas Through Writing