Authentic Opportunities for Writing about Math in Upper Elementary

Free Download Authentic Opportunities for Writing about Math in Upper Elementary:
Prompts and Examples for Building Understanding
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032447842 | 190 Pages | PDF (True) | 39 MB

Part One discusses the importance of emphasizing language to make students’ thinking visible and to sharpen communication skills, while attending to precision. Part Two provides a plethora of writing prompts and activities: Visual Prompts; Compare and Contrast; The Answer Is; Topical Questions; Writing About; Journal Prompts; Poetry/Prose; Cubing and Think Dots; RAFT; Question Quilts; and Always, Sometimes, Never. Each activity is accompanied by a clear overview plus a variety of examples. Part Three offers a crosswalk of writing strategies and math topics to help you plan, as well as a sample anchor task and lesson plan to demonstrate how the strategies can be integrated.