Three reasons to begin cognitive writing -- Cognitive writing essentials -- Finding the right open-ended task -- Scaffolding independence through cognitive writing rituals -- Assessing through cognitive writing -- Scaffolding language acquisition for all learners -- Embedding foundational skills -- Lesson planning with cognitive writing -- Analyzing cognitive writing in PLCs.
Summary
"Journaling to Learn provides sustainable and scalable practices for writing across the content areas. Schools consistently grapple with how to grow writers. While children need exposure to genre-based units like those provided in the Units of Study, they also need frequent on-demand writing tasks to be able to fluently communicate their thinking through writing. What's more, standardized tests are more frequently asking children to construct on-demand written responses after reading a text or analyzing a source. Genre-based writing units are not going to address this need. These units tend to take weeks and are overly scaffolded, whereas on-demand writing requires consistent, repetitive practice in short bursts"--