Strategy: Journaling (Ramsey)
Detailed Description: Journaling provides students time to reflect, formulate personal opinions on issues that matter, and develop them as better writers.
Practical Application: The students will be assigned either specific topics to journal about – changing the audiences, tasks, and purposes of the individual journals – as well as opportunities for free writes in which the students can be creative and develop narrative writing skills.
TRAP: The Center for Applied Research in Education provided these guidelines for students in 1993. Though old, these guidelines are still implemented in schools today and prove effective in creating better writers.
“Writing Journal Guidelines for Students”. The Center for Applied Research in Education in TeacherVision.com. Retrieved from https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/0876289723_44.pdf.
Strategy: GIST Summaries (Chiles)
Detailed Description: The GIST strategy make students practice summarizing the main idea of a text in 20 words or less. It requires students to choose their words carefully to portray what was most important in what they’ve read or learned.
Practical Application: At the end of every day, make time for students to write summaries of what they’ve learned that day using the GIST strategy. Allow them to keep a journal that stays in the classroom and at the end of the day have students write the GIST of what they’ve learned in 20 words or less.
TRAP: Summarizing is a strategy is one of Marzano’s nine instructional strategies, Robert J. Marzano is a renowned educational researcher. His research-based strategies were cited in articles he co-wrote in 2000 and wrote himself in 2003. They were cited by Dr. Kimberly Tyson, a seasoned educator and literacy consultant who is an advocate for research-based instruction. The intentions of both educators were to help teacher facilitate learning by making them aware of effective research-based strategies.
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