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THINKING AND WRITING PROCESS
K-6
Media Directors - Research
Papers and Essays
EMPOWER YOUR
STUDENTS TO THINK WITH SELF-RELIANCE.
RESEARCH
PAPERS and ESSAYS - Simplified and Practical: Your primary teachers will begin with K,
or 1, or 2 in the Level 1 Teacher’s
Guide: Teaching Research Papers and Expository Essays. You’ll all be
thrilled at how quickly these youngsters will succeed! Your Grades 3 and 4
teachers raise the learning bar with Level 2, and your Grades 5 and 6 teachers
top off preparation for middle school and high school with Level 3.
This process progresses K-6 learners through key ideas (notes), thinking strategies
(interpretations), and outlines (categories and logical order). It requires
uses of media for taking notes. When students read sources to extract key ideas
on note cards, they exercise and improve their reading skills. A subtle exercise
surfaces when students arrive in Grade 3 knowing the expository structure and
knowing how to identify information in it. In Grades 3 and 4 students can now
understand meanings through comprehension and interpretation. This
puts media in a vital position.
What do students do? K-2 students begin the chain by taking notes on cards,
thinking about them, sorting them, organizing them on a topic outline, and
writing them into paragraphs with complete sentences. (K teachers lead orally
and write on enlarged forms.) 3-4 students add topic sentences in paragraphs
that follow their outlines. 5-6 students add transitions between paragraphs
and write introductory and concluding paragraphs. Finally, students edit, proofread,
and publish their expository papers.
The Writer’s Guide gives media staff a fabulous tool for keeping everyone
on task while promoting independent studies among students. It also exercises
the technical literature so important in today’s world of reading directions.
Some Grade 2 students can be eased into the Level
1 Writer’s Guide; Grades
3 and 4 can follow the Level 2 Writer’s
Guide; and Grades 5 and 6 can
follow the Level 3. They quickly become self-reliant, freeing you to mingle
among them, observe them, help them individually, and help dependent students
who need closer direction.
How can this help you lead class discussions? Some of the strategies cause
students to think about their notes. With these strategies teachers can ask
great questions and lead thought-filled discussions that strengthen students’ understandings
of their assignments in health, science, and social studies. The Teacher’s
Guide helps you and your teachers shape and use these questions.
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Share this with teachers. Order your own Level
1 Teacher’s and Writer’s
Guides. Empower your students with independence in taking notes, thinking
with them, organizing them, and writing expository reports and essays. Your
impact
will serve them for many, many years.
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Thea
Holtan
