The writing to learn strategy I have picked is strip stories.

The Michigan Department of

Education describes this social studies tool as “After students participate in an activity (inquiry,

reading one or multiple texts, research online, watching a DVD or play), they are given a finite

number of boxes to sequence and retell the important elements of the activity. Each box should

include a thought or speech bubble” (Writing Across the Curriculum, 21). This is an extremely

helpful tool to have students identify target events, use cause and effect, and sequence a series of

events. It also allows students to have creative control of their assignment. The digital resource I

have found to work with this strategy is storyboardthat.com. This allows students to choose from

a wide array of backgrounds, characters, text bubbles, and more to create a captivating

storyboard. The characters can even be customized by skin, hair, eye color, pose, outfit and

more.

Writing Across the Curriculum. Retrieved from.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/SSWAC_225020_7.pdf
https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator