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Literacy Coaching Corner
Making A Connection with Writing
Essential Instructional Practice #6
November Focus: Interactive Writing Experiences
This month we utilized the book, Interactive Writing Across Grades: A Small Practice with Big Results. Prek-5 by Kate Roth and Joan Dabrowski to look at how interactive writing can be an integral part of your writing instruction in Kindergarten and first grade and beyond.
From the introduction:
"Interactive Writing is a powerful approach to writing instruction. Initially designed to support emergent writers, it has been used recently in uppoer elementary classrooms with great success. When done on a regular basis, interactive writing has the potential to improve student's independent writing" (Roth & Dabrowski, 2016, p. xi)
What is Interactive Writing?
- The teacher and the students compose the text together.
- The students take turns to actually write the shared message.
- The writing has a specific purpose and audience.
A typical interactive writing lesson follows these SIX steps:
2. Prewrite- Talk with your students about the purpose of the writing and the intended audience. Also consider the genre of writing.
3. Compose- Utilizing think-alouds and discussion. Actually plan out what the writing will say.
4. Share the Pen- Invite the students to contribute to the piece of writing by letting them physically write on the shared text.
5. Review- Continuously reread the text to be sure it's addressing the audience and matching the purpose. You can also connect the skills you addressed with independent writing.
6. Extend- Two ways to extend your writing are to share the piece of writing with the intended audience or hang up the writing to refer to it as a model or an exemplar of a specific genre.
Teacher Spotlight: Mrs. Verhougstraete
Lesson Demonstration
Consider these guiding questions:
- What skills or knowledge is the teacher addressing in this lesson?
- What might you do this same?
- What might you do differentely?
- How could you adapt this lesson for your grade level?
Literacy Leader Network: Who They Are
- Anna Hungerford and Cadi Drayton from Ovid-Elsie
- Sharon Brown from Pewamo-Westphalia
- Amy Verhougstraete and Erin Larson from DeWitt
- Michelle Clark from Bath
- Tammy Wilson and Elissa Rowland from St.Johns
- Brenda Epkey and LeAnn Schafer from Fowler
Clinton County RESA Literacy Resource Website
The early literacy coaching team has created the Clinton County RESA Literacy Website to provide general literacy and Early Instructional Practices resources for teachers professional learning. You will also find past issues of the Literacy Coaching Corner housed there.
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