Interactive Writing
Interactive writing is a
teacher guided group activity designed to teach children about the writing
process and about how written language works. The teacher and students
negotiate and compose a message or other written text. The students
are encouraged to "think" how a writer "thinks." The teacher and
the students "share the pen" while writing word parts or whole words.
The teacher will fill in the parts that the students do not know.
During interactive writing,
students are involved in explicit demonstrations of the connection between
reading and writing. They participate in a way that calls attention
to details and concepts of how written language works while engaged in
the writing process.
The following is a list
of several interactive writing products.
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a description of something the students did
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a letter
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a note
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labels for a mural or a story map
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a recipe
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a graph
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a set of directions
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charts
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observations of science experiments
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a grocery list
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a retelling of a story
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a student's story
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a survey question
Through interactive writing,
students learn to form letters, hear and analyze phonetic sounds as well
as construct words. They learn about spelling patterns and punctuation
marks. They also learn how to compose different types messages (stories,
lists, letters, etc.)
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