Literacy, while often focused in text and reading, also needs to involve types of writing as they are just as important to improving student understanding of material in a secondary social studies classroom. Students are more actively engaged in learning when they are able to write and process information (Kottler & Gallavan, 2008). By having strategies and activities that explore writing in a social studies classroom, student learning can be targeted and increase in content knowledge, transfer and showing of vocabulary, and constructing meaning and critical analysis from their curriculum.