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WRITING-BASED ROUTINES for LEARNING
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Classroom Action Research Report
The STRUCTURES
TM
instructional routine
Writing to Win® is a set of three routines for writing based learning. Schools have used
them separately or together for over 20 years with significant results.
UNDERSTANDINGS
TM
: short writing to learn core standards
STRUCTURES
TM
for the extended writing process
PATTERNS
TM
: teaching grammar through writing
Current data for STRUCTURES
TM
appears here. While the hallmarks of implemen-
tation are in-class demonstrations and online monitoring of student and teacher prac-
tices, a STRUCTURES
TM
routine includes:
Five key practices of teaching and learning
More than a dozen modes of writing in argumentative/opinion, informative/
explanatory and narrative genres
Organizational wall charts and instructional tools
The writing tasks are
Responses or analyzes of reading texts
Multi-paragraph drafts
Paced (25-30 minutes a minimum of twice a week)
Focused on quality of writing style, ideas and organization.
Average Learning Retention Rates established the power of writing to solidify what
students learn. The likelihood that learning new knowledge will solidify ranges from
Mode of Learning
Percent
Listening
05%
Reading
10%
Passive Learning
Viewing a video
20%
Observing a demonstration
30%
Participating in a discussion
50%
Writing a version of the knowledge
75%
Active Learning
Teachers others
90%
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