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Use Plan, Talk, and Write procedures that systematically bridge students from highly supportive writing instruction to total independent writing regardless of language differences, special needs, and varying ability levels.Utilize systematic writing lessons to plan and organize ideas for engaging narratives, interesting information, dynamic descriptions, succinct summaries, insightful responses to literature, and convincing persuasives.
Learn the two components of writing 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” while she plans, talks, and then writes different genres. One essay may take an entire week of teacher writes. During this daily, five-minute period, students listen as she 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.
Finally, learn how to fit everything into your schedule utilizing the Unit of Study and Writing Across the Curriculum planning tools.
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