The seventh component: Collaborative Writing
1. Writing Workshop and Guided Reading
a. Children engage in writing a variety of texts. Teacher provides instruction through mini lessons, conferences, and shared lessons, often using mentor texts to help the writers learn from effective writers. Sometimes the teacher culls a group of writers with similar needs to provide a “guided writing” lesson.
- Helps writers develop their voice
- Provides opportunities for children to learn how to write from writers
- Provides chance to use writing for different purposes and audiences across the curriculum
- Increase writers’ abilities to use different forms
- Builds ability to write words and use punctuation
- Fosters creativity and the ability to compose
a. Children engage in writing a variety of texts. Teacher provides instruction through mini lessons, conferences, and shared lessons, often using mentor texts to help the writers learn from effective writers. Sometimes the teacher culls a group of writers with similar needs to provide a “guided writing” lesson.
- Helps writers develop their voice
- Provides opportunities for children to learn how to write from writers
- Provides chance to use writing for different purposes and audiences across the curriculum
- Increase writers’ abilities to use different forms
- Builds ability to write words and use punctuation
- Fosters creativity and the ability to compose