iPod Playlists
The Writing Crisis
Dominant Discourse
Teaching Writing
Writing to Live
100
This song is from this famous boy wizard's playlist as heard here.
Who is Harry Potter?
100
Kids are _________ differently.
What is writing?
100
This is used as a fun method of transportation for kids when it snows.
What is a sled?
100
This quick write strategy has students write down all the words they know about a topic, group similar ideas together, and label the different groups.
What is "List, Group, Label"?
100
Students take these during instruction time.
What are notes?
200
This song is from the first man to walk on the moon's playlist as heard here.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
200
There are different ________ of writing such as facebooking or texting.
What is types?
200
This is used as a device to drain the water from noodles or rice also known as a strainer.
What is a colander?
200
This is a writing strategy where students have 90 seconds to persuade or argue a topic.
What is "Pardon the Interruption"?
200
People send these out after receiving gifts.
What are thank you notes?
300
This song is from this fairytale character's playlist as heard here.
Who is Little Red Riding Hood?
300
Some teachers believe there is not a lot of ________ to incorporate writing.
What is time?
300
This is another name for a fizzy, carbonated drink known as soda.
What is pop?
300
This strategy could be used for argumentative or persuasive writing where students place themselves on the side they agree with.
What is a "Continuum Debate"?
300
These are used to make sure people remember what they went to the store to get.
What is a grocery list?
400
This song is from this French King's playlist as heard here.
Who is King Louie XVI?
400
Teachers from different ________ areas are unsure how to teach or incorporate writing into daily instruction.
What is content?
400
This is another name for a device used during grocery shopping also known as a buggy.
What is a cart?
400
This "important piece of real estate" is used as an organizational aid to help students create sentences and paragraphs when writing.
What is a notecard or post-it?
400
Everyday non-verbal conversation made between people using cell phones.
What is a text message?
500
This song is from the graphing playlist as heard here.
What is coordinate plane?
500
Students are not able to use proper ________ when writing.
What is grammar?
500
This is a visual aid that can be used inside the classroom to identify synonyms such as "explain" means "to tell".
What is an anchor chart?
500
This is a writing strategy that helps students summarize information in 3 different ways such as main selection, email, or text.
What is a candy corn summary?
500
Conversations between friends and coworkers using the computer.
What is an email?
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