Synopses & Reviews
Students write the way they think. Acquiring writing competencies usually comes more easily to students with linguistic and logical-mathematical learning styles, but students with visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles must still master essential writing skills and demonstrate those skills on teacher-made tests, high-stakes assessments, and in response to the demands of real life. Teachers who have witnessed their picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind word-smart and number-smart peers will welcome this new collection of teaching strategies designed for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners in the differentiated classroom.
With an emphasis on matching teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing competence and higher-level thinking skills, author Donovan Walling offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, and pathways to fluency that focus on teaching learners how to write authentically, write up the taxonomy, organize artistically, clarify ideas using walkabout strategies, use pattern and rhythm for writing sense, choose the right words, use rubrics, correct their own writing, and more. The book features twelve sample lessons, a learning styles self-assessment, and a list of print and online resources, making this an essential resource for all teachers who want to expand writing curriculum and incorporate non-linear teaching methods into their instructio repertoire.
Synopsis
This resource offers differentiated teaching techniques and sample lessons for writing and thinking skills that emphasize fluency, artistry, walkabout strategies, pattern and rhythm, and more