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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.

#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 New!

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 New!

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

12 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Pre-Writing: Generating Preliminary Ideas New!

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:

#272 – Shift Writing Into the Classroom, Part II, with Dr. Catlin Tucker

Dr. Catlin Tucker discusses her recently released book, Shift Writing Into the Classroom with UDL and Blended Learning, cowritten with Dr. Katie Novak.

Unpacking Education 41 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#261 – WICOR® and AI: Writing

Explore how you can positively and productively leverage artificial intelligence (AI) as a cowriter and writing assistant during the writing process.

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

AI and Writing

Explore strategies for effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the student writing process.

Best Practices 12 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

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