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 like GIST, Herringbone, and Anticipation Guides, and organize them into sections on Vocabulary and Concept Development, Comprehension, Discussion, and Research & Inquiry so you can select and use them to maximum effect.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
A Matrix for Using This Book
Section I. Vocabulary and Concept Development
Scenario: A Look Inside a Middle School Classroom
What the Research Tells Us About Vocabulary and Concept Development
Strategy 1. Frayer Model Plus
Strategy 2. Semantic Feature Analysis Plus
Strategy 3. Vocabulary Cards
Strategy 4. Vocabulary-Concept Journals
Strategy 5. Vocabulary Self-Awareness Chart
Section II. Comprehension
Scenario: A Look Inside an Elementary School Classroom
What the Research Tells Us About Comprehension and Close Reading
Strategy 6. List-Group-Label-Write
Strategy 7. Book Reviews/Book Trailers
Strategy 8. Generating Interactions Between Schemata and Text (GIST)
Strategy 9. Extended Anticipation Guide
Strategy 10. Possible Sentences
Strategy 11. Story Impressions
Strategy 12. Reading Road Map
Strategy 13. Say Something and Summarize
Strategy 14. Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then
Strategy 15. Exchange Compare Writing
Strategy 16. RAFT Writing
Strategy 17. So What?
Strategy 18. Found Poetry Summaries
Strategy 19. Sticky Note Maps
Strategy 20. Double Entry Journal/Dialectic Response Journal
Section III. Research and Inquiry
Scenario: A Look Inside a High School History Classroom
What the Research Tells Us About Inquiry and Research
Strategy 21. 1-2-3 Research
Strategy 22. Collaborative Listening Viewing Guide (CLVG)
Strategy 23. Herringbone
Strategy 24. Inquiry Charts
Strategy 25. KWL Plus
Strategy 26. Multiple Source Research Strategy
Strategy 27. Web Page Evaluation Tools
Section IV. Discussion
Scenario: A Look Inside a Middle School Science Classroom
What the Research Tells Us About Classroom Discussion
Strategy 28. Discussion Webs
Strategy 29. Talking Drawings
Strategy 30. Tea Party
Strategy 31. Think-Pair-Share-Write
Strategy 32. Ticket to Talk

Dr. Karen Wood has been training literacy specialists for over 25 years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she is a Professor in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education. Dr. Wood is a published author and former reading teacher, reading specialist, and K-12 instructional coordinator, and much of her writing focuses on translating research and theory into classroom practice across all subjects and grade levels.