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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.

 

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Tanny McGregor on the Heinemann Podcast

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

References

 

 

 

Samples

• Sample Chapter

Companion Resources

• Free Ink & Ideas Sketchnoting Templates

Related PD Services

Speakers

• Invite Tanny McGregor, Consulting Author to speak at your school, district, or conference through Heinemann Speakers.

Email planningservices@heinemann.com if you would like to contact Tanny McGregor directly about professional development support.