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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.

#389 – Tech in the Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Organization New!

Explore strategies and digital tools to help students organize their content so that they’re ready to begin writing.

Tech Talk For Teachers 11 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Writing Your First Draft New!

Use technology to assist you in writing your first draft.

12 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Pre-Writing: Organization New!

Explore mind mapping, outlining, and storyboarding as strategies to organize ideas in the pre-writing phase of the writing process.

11 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#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.

Tech Talk For Teachers 13 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#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.

Tech Talk For Teachers 13 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Pre-Writing: Research, Citations, and Note-Taking

Explore pre-writing strategies that include researching, generating citations, and note-taking.

12 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

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.

12 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#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.

Unpacking Education 37 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#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.

Tech Talk For Teachers 14 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Pre-Writing: Clarifying Your Writing Task

Review strategies for deconstructing a writing prompt and selecting a topic.

10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Writing to Learn

Explore benefits, strategies, and technology applications that engage students in writing to learn.

10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Google Vids

Use Google Vids to bring video production into your K–12 classroom.

8 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Adobe Podcast

Explore the features of Adobe Podcast and consider how you might integrate student podcasting into your classroom.

8 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

QuillBot

Explore QuillBot, an AI writing assistant that works across various apps and websites.

10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

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.

11 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

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