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Title: Ten Writing Instructional Strategies Every Teacher Should Know


1
Ten Writing Instructional Strategies Every
Teacher Should Know
Douglas Fisher San Diego State University dfisher_at_
mail.sdsu.edu
2
Language Experience Approach
  • Students are active language users
  • Teacher transcribes students
  • words (whole class,
  • small group, or
  • individual)
  • Students extend
  • text

3
Interactive Writing
  • Oral Language
  • Composition
  • Construction
  • Sharing the pen
  • students write
  • in front of their
  • peers

4
Writing Models
  • Offers a pattern or
  • form to scaffold
  • writing
  • Using existing text
  • students insert
  • original writing

5
Generative or Given Word Sentences
  • Focus on the craft of writing
  • Lessons to refine
  • practice
  • Use student
  • examples for
  • editing
  • No excuse

6
Word Pyramids
  • Requires students to consider lots of words
  • Explores and expands word knowledge
  • Dictionary use?

7
Power Writing
  • Brief, timed writing events to improve
  • fluency
  • Students chart their
  • own progress
  • Extension -
  • progressive
  • writing

8
Found Poems
  • Student use existing text
  • Select specific words/phrases
  • Arrange them in free-verse
  • Requires re-reading
  • of texts

9
RAFT Writing
  • Role, Audience, Format,
  • and Topic are
  • explicitly taught
  • Perspective taking
  • is the focus

10
Writing to Learn
  • What do students know and think?
  • Brief prompts
  • Yesterdays news a review of class from the
    previous day
  • Crystal ball a prediction of what might come
    next
  • Best thing I learned a summary or analysis of
    the best part of class
  • Exit slip a written review of the class
    completed before leaving the room
  • Not process papers

11
Independent Writing
  • Based on a prompt, students produce original
    writing
  • Multiple genres
  • Rubrics guide
  • students
  • completion
  • of the task

12
Interactions Writing and the Language Arts
  • Read aloud or shared reading
  • Independent reading
  • Word study (word wall)
  • Collaborative learning
  • centers
  • Individual and small
  • group instruction
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