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This writing seminar includes letter writing, imaginative and personal narratives, descriptive writing, and expository writing. These kid-friendly lessons, activities, and materials will engage all students to write organized and interesting sentences and paragraphs. Your students will come alive with the engaging, systematic lessons filled with oral language strategies and rehearsals to elicit sophisticated writing.
The Writing Inservices utilize two components of instruction: 1) teacher write and 2) writing lessons.
The first component is the teacher write. This is a daily five-minute lesson for students to observe the teacher “thinking aloud” and writing different genres utilizing the writing process. During this daily, five-minute period, students listen as the teacher models strategies of a “good writer”. This is a dynamic, fast-paced daily activity crucial for students to observe good, fluent writing, and then connect the skills and strategies learned to their own work as well as provide students with a more academic and sophisticated background of written language.
The second component of writing instruction are the whole class lessons. During these lessons, students develop academic language through systematic writing instruction to plan, revise, and edit their writing. This instructional model has a specific design: The teacher begins with step-by-step, explicit instruction that creates a routine of learning. Students then practice the strategy with immediate and corrective feedback from the teacher. After many lessons, the teacher then slowly releases students to the partner level, and finally independent writing.
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