ArtsTeach

Writing Features & Descriptions	General Writing Challenge Areas	How can the arts help student writers..
Organization Logical progression and completeness of ideas	Some student writers need help identifying and planning structures to clearly express ideas in words.	How can the arts help student writers... Scaffold the transition between brainstorming and drafting? See parallels between the planning process in writing and in other creative processes? Prioritize their ideas? Support organization of ideas for struggling writers, students writing in a second language and non-writers? Build on familiar graphic organizers (e.g. webs) to make them more vivid and useful? Reorganize for revision without “going back to the drawing board?”