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2008

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The Role Of Writing: Increasing Higher Level Thinking For All Students, Caroline Elser Jan 2008

The Role Of Writing: Increasing Higher Level Thinking For All Students, Caroline Elser

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Teachers can use writing in three important ways to increase higher level thinking skills for all students. First, they must increase writing proficiency for struggling writers; second, writing can increase higher-level thinking, and third, writing can be used across content areas to increase writing fluency while fostering higher-level thinking.