Smuggling Writing: Strategies That Get Students to Write Every Day, in Every Content Area, Grades 3-12

by Karen D. Wood, Katie Stover, David Bruce Taylor

Can you sneak more writing into your already-jammed curriculum?

Smuggling Writing shows how to integrate writing seamlessly into your lesson plans, with 32 written response activities that help students process information and ideas in short, powerful sessions. The authors invigorate time-tested tools and organize them into sections on Vocabulary and Concept Development, Comprehension, Discussion, and Research & Inquiry. Each Smuggling Writing shows how big gains will come from "writing small" day by day.

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2015

Reviews

[Jen Oswald · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful book of strategies...integrating reading, writing, and technology for upper elementary, middle school and high school! Each strategy has rationale, how to incorporate technology, and steps to implement in content area classes. Also has a way to get in additional writing (and we definitely need that!). Does have alignment to common core included, and could easily be adapted to any curriculum.

[Cassie Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been reading this book, one idea at a time. First I'll say that I was able to pull a few fresh ideas out of this book to use in my own classroom, and this is always a plus. But, what makes this book so important, in my opinion, is that classroom teachers across all content areas are certain to find value in this book. The ideas are engaging and flexible, highlighting possibilities for "smuggling" writing into the nooks and crannies of classrooms where one might not normally find writing. Although this book is by no means groundbreaking, it is full of readily useful ideas.