Fluency and Correct Word Sequences

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Fluency and Correct Word Sequences

• Progress Monitoring
• and
• Interventions

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Strong Writing Instruction includes

• Meaningful writing experiences
• Routines to become comfortable with the writing
  process
• Lessons designed for students to master the craft
  elements, writing skills, process strategies
• A common language for shared expectations and
  feedback on writing quality

Teaching Writing to Diverse Student Populations
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In your classroom

• Challenge them
• Build on strengths first
• Offer choices
• Provide secure environment
• Manageable tasks
• Use caution
• Locus of control

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To Help Struggling Writers

• Teach composing strategies
• Integrate writing instruction with content
  learning
• Have students work in groups/partners
• Have students keep track of their writing
  progress

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To Help Struggling Writers

• Develop word play (activities)
• Have students set personal goals each day (and
  keep track)
• Model writing, provide examples, read/show
  examples of good writing in that area of focus
• Use personalized dictionaries
• Conference/Feedback

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As a Teacher of Writing

• Choose text that has many things to teach in
  between the lines on the pages or the pictures
• Choose a text that you can revisit for different
  purposes at different times

Isoke Titilayo Nia, 2001
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As a Teacher of Writing

• Use Text-
• A Mentor Text
• Examine text as a writer
• Genre
• Structure
• How language is written down
• Sound/Placement of words

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Using Technology

• Connect with other classrooms
• Global School Net
• www.gsn.org
• Classroom Connect Teachers Database
• www.classroomconnect.com
• Use of e-mail
• Key Pals
• www.teaching.com
• E-mail classroom exchange
• www.epals.com

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Using Technology

• Publishing
• Kid Pub
• www.kidpub.org
• Kid Authors
• www.realkids.com/club.shtml