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Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners

By: Donovan R. Walling

Are your picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart peers?

This innovative new resource for teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum designers offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, and pathways to fluency to help these learners become effective writers! Matching teaching method to learning style and emphasizing both basic writing competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource greatly expands non-linear instructional options that focus on:

Organizing ideas "artistically"
Using walkabout strategies to clarify concepts
Using pattern and rhythm for writing sense, and much more

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412925204
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 136
Publication date: April 11, 2006

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"As a writing teacher for twenty-some years, I wish I'd had access to this material."
-Marilee Sprenger, Educational Consultant
Seattle Pacific University

"Helps teachers see how to approach writing in ways that make it fresh, relevant, and accessible."
-Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor of Educational Leadership
University of Virginia

"True to one of the basic tenets of writing, the book shows rather than tells . . . . This makes for a fun and engaging read."
-Erin Sullivan, Research Associate
University of Connecticut

Are your picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart peers?

Donovan Walling offers innovative new ways to help these learners become effective writers! With an emphasis on matching teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, and pathways to fluency that focus on

Organizing ideas "artistically"
Using walkabout strategies to clarify concepts
Using pattern and rhythm for writing sense, and much more

Twelve sample lessons and a learning styles self-assessment make this an essential resource for teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum designers who want to expand writing curriculum and incorporate more non-linear methods into their instructional repertoires.

Key features

Differentiated strategies for teaching basic writing skills as well as higher-order thinking skills
Designed for students with visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles and multiple intelligences
Ready-to-use sample lessons demonstrate the instructional strategies in action
Includes rubrics for formative and summative assessment as well as a student self-assessment checklist

Author(s)

Donovan R. Walling

Donovan R. Walling is a writer, editor, educator, and consultant. He serves as a senior consultant for the Center for Civic Education. He has taught art, English, and journalism in the United States and abroad and has worked as a curriculum administrator in public school districts in Wisconsin and Indiana. From 1993 until 2006 he was director of publications for the education association Phi Delta Kappa International.

Walling is the author or editor of more than a dozen professional books for educators and numerous articles and other publications. He is nationally recognized in the field of art education, where some of his publications include Under Construction: The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Postmodern Schooling (Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1997); the Corwin Press books, Rethinking How Art Is Taught: A Critical Convergence (2000) and Visual Knowing: Connecting Art and Ideas Across the Curriculum (2005); the core chapter on visual and performing arts for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s Curriculum Handbook (2002), and the “Art in the Schools” entry for Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Education (2003).

Walling’s recent books include Public Education, Democracy, and the Common Good (Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 2004) and Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners (Corwin Press, 2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. Writing Processes and Differentiated Instruction

Assembly-Line Writing

Teaching Writing for Meaning

Learning Styles and Differentiated Instruction

Stimulus, Process, and Product

Learning Styles Self-Assessment

References

2. Writing About Real Things

School Writing Versus Authentic Writing

Multidimensional Authentic Response Writing

And Then: The Process Phase

Pathways to Fluency

Sample Lesson 2.1: Respond As a ___ Might

Sample Lesson 2.2: Multidimensional Authentic Response Writing

References

3. Observing, Then Writing

Sensory Reportage

Visual Reportage

Auditory Reportage

Kinesthetic Reportage

Translation Into Different Forms

Sense Exploration

Writing Up the Taxonomy

Sample Lesson 3.1: Template and Checklist Strategies

Sample Lesson 3.2: Observation and Sensory Reportage

References

4. Organizing Artistically

Pearls-on-a-String Organization

Inductive and Deductive Organization

Inverted Pyramid Organization

Identifying Key Ideas

Another Translation: Factual Reportage

Sample Lesson 4.1: Gathering and Organizing Information

Sample Lesson 4.2: Artistic Organization

5. Clarifying Ideas Using Walkabout Strategies

Walkabouts

Paragraph Walkabouts

Auditory and Kinesthetic Paragraph Walkabouts

Collaborative Planning, Drafting, and Revising

Guide on the Side

Sample Lesson 5.1: Paragraph Walkabout and Sense Exploration

Sample Lesson 5.2: Paragraph Walkabout Analysis

6. Using Patterns and Rhythms for Writing Sense

Discerning and Adjusting Patterns and Rhythms

Translating the Visual and the Auditory for Kinesthetic Learning

Brevity, Elaboration, and Conceptual Density

Outlining to Revise

Sample Lesson 6.1: Outlining to Revise — and Revising

Sample Lesson 6.2: Patterns and Rhythms for Writing Sense

7. Choosing the Right Words

Basic Words: Nouns and Verbs

Correct and Politically Correct

More Basic Words: Adjectives and Adverbs

Brevity

Spelling Improvement

Sample Lesson 7.1: Reviewing the Words

Sample Lesson 7.2: Up Close: Choosing the Right Words

References

8. Increasing Focused Engagement

Selective Correction

The Importance of Portfolios

Making and Using Rubrics

Rubrics and the SAT Essay

Concluding Thoughts and a Final Checklist

References

Resources

Online

Index

Reviews

"I think the content in this book is excellent and it makes a great contribution. As a writing teacher for twenty-some years, I wish I’d had access to this material...This is important and seminal work that is needed for differentiating writing for students with strong learning preferences."

Marilee Sprenger, Educational Consultant
Seattle Pacific University

"True to one of the basic tenets of writing, the book shows rather than tells...The author consistently conveys ideas through metaphor, symbolism and simile, without extraneous words or overly elaborate imagery. This makes for a fun and engaging read."

Erin Sullivan, Research Associate
National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut

"The book helps teachers see how to approach writing in ways that make it fresh, relevant, and accessible. It is substantive and not a twinky 'feel good' book. ...it will be useful to teachers who work diligently to help students become more competent and confident writers."

Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor of Educational Leadership
University of Virginia

"The book makes a distinct contribution to the teaching of writing; I am not aware of any other book that addresses the issues so comprehensively."

Pamela Fannin Wilkinson, Educational Consultant
The Winston School San Antonio, TX

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