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What are the three purposes of writing?
- 1. children learn how to write
- 2. children learn about written language- purpose, audience and form
- 3. children learn through writing- writing gives you an opportunity to think about your thinking
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stages of the writing process?
- 1. prewriting- choose a topic, consider purpose, audience and genre, generate and organize ideas for writing
- 2. drafting- write a rough draft and write leads
- 3. revising- reread the rough draft, share rough draft with writing group, revise on basis of feedback received from writing group
- 4. editing- get distance from composition, proofread to locate errors, correct errors
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What are the 6 writing genres?
- 1. narrative
- 2. expository/informational
- 3. poetry
- 4. persuasive
- 5. journals and letters
- 6. descriptive
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What happens during conferencing in a writing group?
- * writer reads
- * listeners offer compliments
- * writer asks questions
- *listeners offer suggestions
- * repeat the process
- *writer plans for revision
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Modeled Writing
teacher writes in front of students, creating the text, doing the writing and thinking aloud about writing strategies and skills
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Shared writing
Teacher and students create the text together, then the the teacher does the actual writing. Children may assist by spelling words.
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Interactive writing
teacher and student create the text together and share the pen to do the writing, teacher and children talk about writing conventions
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Guided writing
Teacher presents a structured lesson and supervises as children write. Teacher also teaches a writing procedure, strategy or skill
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Independent writing
Student use the writing process to write stories, informational books and other compositions. teacher monitors children's progress.
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Components of writer's workshop
- Writing- sufficient time for independent writing
- Sharing- students conference with peers and teacher to receive feedback
- minilessons- teachers provide short lessons on the craft of writing
- reading aloud- quality literature is chosen to model good writing
- maxilesson- can be taught large or small group and longer lessons about writing are discussed
- status of the class
- conferencing
- checklists
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The six traits
- 1. ideas
- 2. organization
- 3. voice
- 4. word choice
- 5. sentence fluency
- 6. conventions
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Types of journals
- -personal journals
- -dialogue journals
- -reading logs
- -learning logs
- -double entry journals
- -simulated journals
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