Write! Cooperative Learning Books for Teachers

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My first book, Write! Cooperative Learning and the Writing Process focuses on elementary levels 2 through 6. It includes cooperative learning writing activities for eighteen types of writing in twenty-three ready-to-use lessons. How to use cooperative learning structures in all the steps of the writing process is explained in detail. Innovative blackline masters, hands-on ideas, and helpful tips about teaching writing abound. Order direct from Kagan Cooperative Learning.

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In Write! Science: Cooperative Learning Writing Activities students get a deeper understanding and appreciation for science issues by writing about science. Students work cooperatively with teammates on activities like prioritizing science problems, writing about how industry affects the environment, or coming up with a new invention. This book also gives many tips and suggestions for journal writing. There are blackline masters for every assignment, and the connection between cooperative learning and multiple intelligences is made easy.

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In the Write! Social Studies: Cooperative Learning Writing Activities, students delve deep into social studies issues as they work cooperatively with teammates on activities like writing the correspondence of two historical characters, publishing and sharing political cartoons, or discussing and writing about famous historical quotations. The book gives many tips and suggestions for journal writing. It explains how painless it can be to read and grade writing assignments when you aren't the English teacher. You'll appreciate the innovative blackline masters and the help with cooperative learning structures and multiple intelligences.

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The Write! Mathematics: Cooperative Learning Writing Activities book includes flexible topics that work with any math curriculum. Topics adapt the writing assignments to many strands of mathematical concepts and many levels of thinking. Emphasis on multiple intelligences in math learning brings variety to the assignments. In addition, the book gives many tips and suggestions for journal writing. Best of all, it explains how painless it can be to read and grade writing assignments when you aren't the English teacher.

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About this series

Learning to write is a natural partner with cooperative learning. For young people, writing involves talking, trying out, reading, revising, and sharing. These books offer a wealth of instantly useable teaching ideas for writers from grades 3 through 8. The cooperative learning activities in the books are based on the structural approach of Dr. Spencer Kagan. For teachers who are unfamiliar with Kagan's structural approach, there is plenty of guidance in the use of cooperative learning as well as the hundreds of interesting writing ideas.

In the Math, Science and Social Studies writing across the curriculum series, there is an emphasis on multiple intelligences.