Explore strategies and digital tools to help students organize their content so that they’re ready to begin writing.
Implementing WICOR®: Writing
WICOR is AVID’s proven learning support structure, which emphasizes writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading to prepare students for college and career success. This collection explores writing strategies as well as technology that can be used to power up the writing process.
Writing Your First Draft New!
Use technology to assist you in writing your first draft.
Pre-Writing: Organization New!
Explore mind mapping, outlining, and storyboarding as strategies to organize ideas in the pre-writing phase of the writing process.
#387 – Tech in the Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Gathering Ideas and Content New!
Explore strategies for researching, generating citations, and note-taking during the writing process.
#385 – Tech in the Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Generating Preliminary Ideas
Explore how technology can be integrated into the second part of the pre-writing process: generating preliminary ideas.
Pre-Writing: Research, Citations, and Note-Taking
Explore pre-writing strategies that include researching, generating citations, and note-taking.
Pre-Writing: Generating Preliminary Ideas
Explore technology and strategies that students can use when generating preliminary ideas during the pre-writing stage of the writing process.
#384 – Integrating WICOR®, with Kera Diller
AVID Site Coordinator Kera Diller shares strategies for implementing AVID’s WICOR methodology—which incorporates Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading—in K–12 classrooms.
#383 – Tech in the Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Clarifying Your Writing Task
Explore how technology can be integrated into the first part of the pre-writing process: clarifying your task and choosing a topic.
Pre-Writing: Clarifying Your Writing Task
Review strategies for deconstructing a writing prompt and selecting a topic.
Writing to Learn
Explore benefits, strategies, and technology applications that engage students in writing to learn.
Google Vids
Use Google Vids to bring video production into your K–12 classroom.
Adobe Podcast
Explore the features of Adobe Podcast and consider how you might integrate student podcasting into your classroom.
QuillBot
Explore QuillBot, an AI writing assistant that works across various apps and websites.
Brisk Teaching: An AI Teaching Assistant and Writing Feedback Tool
Learn about Brisk Teaching, which functions through the use of a Google Chrome extension, and its suite of teaching assistants and writing feedback tools.
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