Abstract: An educational method for teaching a metacognitive process for writing is demonstrated within a series of colored, hand-held multiple-shaped manipulatives. Representing a foundation from which all types of writing and its conventions may be explored, the manipulatives have been so designed to aid students in the process of recalling, interpreting, applying, analyzing, synthesizing and/or judging during the writing process. Each part of the manipulatives represent an essential component of the student's thinking during the writing application. The shape, color and key word of each manipulative represents an association for the student in his/her thinking during the process of writing.