Below is a link to a video discussing/modeling guided writing within a classroom. Take a few minutes to watch it. What did you see that you could use in your classroom today?
What a great idea to start a blog for our teachers! I would like to recommend the site Readkiddoread by James Patterson for getting kids excited about reading, and then motivating them to write about their experiences. Writing seems like a very difficult endeavor for our students, but if we have them start by making it like a written conversation with a friend, they seem to just take off on their own.
I enjoyed watching the video! It is great to see children in action moving from the fears of writing to the satisfaction of producing a piece of writing. I thought that the process shown of discussing vocabulary before writing was a good reminder of how to guide children to a written product. I loved the oral rehearsing of sentences and the working together in pairs. Guided writing is a great way to enhance the conventions of writing during the process and not doing it as a separate eactivity. At the end, I thought the idea of inviting parents to join in the learning of the guided writing process was a positive activity.
Thanks for sharing this SJ and MH!!!! Any ideas who AggieTeacher44 is????? That is the name that I use with my blog on action research!
I posted a thought last night and I think that it must have come from a book by Marzano about best teaching strategies. I loved it and it made great sense to me. It was think it, ink it, link it. The Marzano book is the next one that I will read. Has anyone already read it?
What a great idea to start a blog for our teachers! I would like to recommend the site Readkiddoread by James Patterson for getting kids excited about reading, and then motivating them to write about their experiences. Writing seems like a very difficult endeavor for our students, but if we have them start by making it like a written conversation with a friend, they seem to just take off on their own.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed watching the video! It is great to see children in action moving from the fears of writing to the satisfaction of producing a piece of writing. I thought that the process shown of discussing vocabulary before writing was a good reminder of how to guide children to a written product. I loved the oral rehearsing of sentences and the working together in pairs. Guided writing is a great way to enhance the conventions of writing during the process and not doing it as a separate eactivity. At the end, I thought the idea of inviting parents to join in the learning of the guided writing process was a positive activity.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this SJ and MH!!!!
Any ideas who AggieTeacher44 is?????
That is the name that I use with my blog on action research!
Here is a great idea! It was shared with me on another discussion board that I was reading and participating in!
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What a great tool to use every single day in literacy!
I posted a thought last night and I think that it must have come from a book by Marzano about best teaching strategies. I loved it and it made great sense to me. It was think it, ink it, link it. The Marzano book is the next one that I will read. Has anyone already read it?
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