Full Description
Ink & Ideas is a lifetime in the making. Tanny McGregor has been thinking with a pen in her hand, putting words and pictures together for as long as she's been reading. Sketchnoting, also known as visual notetaking, helps make your thinking visible, visual, and meaningful. All kinds of people sketchnote, for all kinds of reasons. By introducing sketchnoting in your classroom, you will provide opportunities for your students to engage with and explore their thinking with what they are reading, listening to, or viewing.
Ink & Ideas is Tanny's tried and true toolkit to get you and your students started, including templates, tools, suggested reading, ideas, inspiration, and more. She outlines the how and why behind visual notetaking, including research and benefits, providing everything you need to introduce and launch sketchnoting across grade levels and content areas.
A different kind of thinking happens with pen in hand. With sketchnoting, the one who holds the pen holds the power. Only the thinker decides what appears on the page, and how. Open up a window into your students' brilliant minds and watch their thinking become visible as they sketchnote their way to deeper understanding and new ideas.
Contents
OPENING Inking as Thinking
CHAPTER 1 More Than Just a Pretty Page
The benefits of sketchnoting
Ink in Action: A Parent's Perspective on Sketchnoting
CHAPTER 2 One Blank Page = Unlimited Possibilities
Launching sketchnoting on your own and with your students
Ink in Action: Learning Alongside Students with Sketchnotes
CHAPTER 3 Becoming an Independent Inker
Getting started with sketchnoting
Ink in Action: Sketching in Science
CHAPTER 4 Sketchnote LIVE: Be in the Moment
Capturing read-alouds, music, texts, direct instruction, and more in sketchnotes
Ink in Action: Sketchnoting for Reading Comprehension
Ink in Action: Sketchnoting to Empower Striving Readers
CHAPTER 5 Thinking Ahead & Thinking After
Preparing, organizing, and reflecting with sketchnotes
Ink in Action: Sketchnoting in High School
CHAPTER 6 Sketchnote Tapas
Bringing sketchnoting to everything from mission statements to parent newsletters to daily schedules
Ink in Action: Sketchnoting as a Pathway to Discovery
CLOSING Thinkers & Artists
Appendix A A Sketchnoter's Treasure Trove
A reserve of resources to increase your sketchnoting repertoire
Appendix B Sketchnoting Templates
Visual roadmaps for the journey ahead
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