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Ideation

 

Images can often be helpful to support students thinking and ideation. 
Quick Guide:
Images to Support Writing
 
Building students background knowledge can also help them generate ideas Building Background Knowledge

 

Planning to write

 

Planning is more than just pre-writing. It is a multi-step process that involves contemplation of ideas, vocabulary, and language, activation of prior knowledge, organization of knowledge, and ongoing or recursive planning. Students ability to effectively plan is related to their developmental stage. There are many pre-writing tools that support the pre-writing planning process.
Word banks can remind students of ideas and vocabulary. These can be paper of digital and can be pre-filled or created “on the fly” through whole group, small group or individual conferencing.
Quick Guides:
Creating Word Banks

For students who benefit from a planning model the table to text strategy can be helpful.
Table to Text Writing Planning
Voice recording to plan writing Voice Notes


Organization

 

Many tools that support pre-writing and planning also support written organization.  

No Tech
Sticky Note Strategy 
Chrome based  
Voice Notes   
Table to Text Writing Planning 

Check with your Media specialist for resources on NoodleTools 

Vocabulary

 

Students who struggle with vocabulary benefit from word banks with targeted vocabulary words included. These can be with pre-filled or created “on the fly” through whole group, small group or individual conferencing.
Quick Guides:
Creating Word Banks
Images can prompt students to find or remember vocabulary when writing.
Images to support Writing
Quick Quide: Supporting Vocabulary with Read&Write for Google
  1. Vocabulary definitions
  2. Images
  3. Space for their own entry to support understanding of the word

 

Transferring ideas from thinking to paper

 

Speech to text is useful for students who can speak their ideas in an organized way, but struggle to write with the same clarity. Using an organizer prior to speaking is necessary for many students regardless of their writing format. Refer to the Planning and organizing sections of the toolfinder
Quick Guide
Speech to text in the Chrome Browser

Students who forget their ideas in the process of writing them, but who don’t speak in an organized way, could record themselves speaking and then use the recordings as a bridge to writing the ideas down.