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Literacy Coaching Corner
Making A Connection with Writing: December 2021
Essential Instructional Practice #6
December Focus: Interactive Writing Experiences
This month we continued to utilize 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 all classrooms Kindergarten thru 5th grade.
From the introduction:
"Interactive Writing is a powerful approach to writing instruction. Initially designed to support emergent writers, it has been used recently in upper 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 does interactive writing look like in the classroom?
Mrs. Rowland, FIrst Grade
Mrs. Epkey, Second Grade
Mrs. Verhougstraete, First Grade
"During the writing I focused on writing a story with a beginning, middle, and end. I was also able to reinforce some of the phonics work we are doing in small groups. It was easy to differentiate - I pulled one student up to work on the "t" spelling for /ch/ which is something his small group recently worked on while other students helped with more common patterns."
She said this writing experience was also a great way to reinforce phonemic awareness skills such as segmenting words to find the spellings for all of the sounds.
Mrs. Brown, Second Grade
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
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