Supporting Student to Write

8/10/2019 Supporting Student to Write

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SupportingStudents to

Write


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Five levels of supports

for students writing

1. modelled writing

2. shared writing

3. interactive writing

4. guided writing5. independent writing


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Modelled writing

teachers demonstrate or model how

competent writers write; three purposes of modelled writing:

1. to demonstrate how to do writing

activity before instructing students

to do


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2. to demonstrate how to use writing

strategies, such as proofreading,monitoring, sentence combining,

and revising;

3. to demonstrate writing conventions

and other writing skills;


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Shared Writing

the teacher and students work together to

compose a text;

conventions of written language is taught;

texts are written on the whiteboard so that

students can observe what is being written;

teacher writes the text with input from the

students;


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Three purposes for shared writing:

1. to demonstrate writing throughthinking aloud;

2. to generate students ideas;3. to create written texts for students

who could not write independently;


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LanguageExperience

Approach


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Interactive Writing

teachers and children create a text and share

the pen to write the text on chart paper;

text is written word-byword on a chart paper; students take turns writing known letters and

familiar words, adding punctuation marks, and

marking spaces between words;

teachers provide instruction and assistance to

students as they write;


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Four purposes for interactive writing:

1. to demonstrate how to write words and

sentences;2. to teach how to use capital letters and

punctuation marks;

3. to demonstrate how to use phonics andspelling patterns to spell words;

4. to create written texts for students who

could not write independently


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Suggestive activities for

Interactive Writing write predictions before reading

write responses after reading.

write letters and other messages make lists

write daily news

rewrite a familiar story write information or facts

write recipes


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The Steps in Interactive

Writing collect materials for interactive writing

offer stimulus work out a text

distribute materials for students to exploit

write the first sentence word-by-word display the completed writing chart on the

class notice board


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Guided Writing

scaffold or support students writing during

guided writing, but students do the actual writing

themselves; teachers plan structured writing activities and

then supervise as students do the writing;

teachers also guide the writing when they

conference with students as they write,

participate in writing groups to help students

revise their writing, and proofread with students;


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Four purposes for guided writing:

1. to scaffold a writing experience;

2. to introduce different types of writingactivities;

3. to teach student to use the writing process

especially, how to revise and edit;

4. to teach procedures, concepts, strategies,

and skills during mini-lessons


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Independent Writing

students do the writing themselves and often use

the writing process to write books;

they practice the writing strategies and skillsthey are learning;

independent writing can be used in reading logs,

make posters, and do other types of writing

activities;


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Six purposes for interactive writing:

1. to provide an authentic context for writing

practice;

2. to give students opportunities to choose writing

topics and forms;

3. to gain writing fluency and stamina;

4. as a tool for learning, such as when studentswrite in reading logs and other types of journals;

5. to make and publish books;

6. to document learning in literature focus units

and thematic units;

Documents

Supporting Student to Write