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How do I use Journeys?
Whether you’re building your writing instruction around demonstrating reading comprehension or looking for standards-aligned practice in the common writing genres or content areas, you can use Writable Journeys as your guide to “what’s next?” Daily writing practice with Journeys will help you and your students achieve your end goal.
A Journey starts with shorter writing prompts and progresses to more involved tasks – such as extended responses – that ask students to put together what they have learned.
Each Journey offers options that fit your teaching style and students’ needs. We provide actionable data insights along the way so you can customize which skills to cover next.
Starting your Journey: High Five Quick Writes
Writable Journeys start with skill-aligned, teacher-driven writing prompts called High Five Quick Writes.
When you choose a Journey, your students’ overall progress with each skill area is tracked over time. This makes it easy to determine what additional skill areas are most important to their success.
You can use our sample prompt for the High Five or get creative and write your own.
Once you decide on a prompt, choose whether or not you'd like students to peer review, then click "Next".
Continuing your Journey: Starting with the End in Mind
Writable Journeys help you choose or create assignments that ladder up to your ultimate instructional goal. Once you assign one (or several) High Five Quick Writes, you can assign more scaffolded and extended materials that pull multiple skills together.
Options for continuing your Journey:
Assign Skills Lessons for students to practice skills independently
Work up to an Extended Response or Essay from the Journey
Create your own final assignment using your state or district-created common rubric
Differentiate practice or re-teaching based on student mastery
Any combination of the above!
💡Tip! As you plan your Journey, look at some of the later assignments for ideas on where you’re going with your instruction.
How do I plan for and monitor my Journeys?
Planning for a Journey by yourself or with your team is as easy as starting with a goal.
For example, perhaps your school or district is working on building successful paragraph writing or is re-thinking how writing can be used to support reading or content-area knowledge. Or, maybe your team hopes to build student confidence and engagement with a specific genre of writing.
Once you choose a Journey, you can copy assignments from the Journey in 'Explore' and they will be saved to your ‘My Assignments' page. In addition, each assignment will be saved to your ‘My Journeys’ section where they will be organized into Journey folders. You can use these folders to monitor progress on selected assignments.
If you need any additional support, please reach out to the Writable team at support@writable.com.