Lynn Sholes's Blog - Posts Tagged "benefit-of-writing"

“From the early formation of letters to crafting an essay, writing involves perhaps more subskills than any other academic task. To write well requires combining multiple physical and mental processes in one concerted effort to convey information and ideas. We must, for instance, be able to move a pen, or depress a key, precisely and fluidly to render letters, remember rules of grammar and syntax, place our thoughts in an order that makes sense, and think ahead to what we want to write next.
This combination of tasks makes writing the highest form and most complex use of language.”
I'm paraphrasing: "Writing is the most complex orchestra a kid will ever have to conduct."
Interesting articles
The Brain-Based Benefits of Writing for Math and Science Learning
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/writing-...