Authentic Opportunities for Writing about Math in Early Childhood: Prompts and Examples for Building Understanding [Paperback]

Teach students to write about math so they can improve their conceptual understanding in authentic ways. This resource offers hands-on strategies you can use to help students in grades PreK-2?discuss and articulate mathematical ideas, use correct vocabulary, and compose mathematical arguments.

Part 1: Why Writing in Math Matters  1. Purposeful Writing: Intentional Design  Part 2: Writing Prompts  2. Visual Prompts  3. Compare and Contrast  4. The Answer Is&  5. Topical Questions  6. Writing About&  7. Journal Prompts  8. Poetry/Prose  9. Cubing and Think Dots  10. RAFT  11. Question Quilt  12. True/False and Always, Sometimes, and Never  Part 3: Planning and Implementation  13. Crosswalks  14. Bringing It All Together

Teach students to write about math so they can improve their conceptual understanding in authentic ways. This resource offers hands-on strategies you can use to help students in grades PreK2 discuss and articulate mathematical ideas, use correct vocabulary, and compose mathematical arguments.

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 integrals-