Teaching Young Writers (Midterm-Dr. Ellis)
Two sections of Writer's Notebook
(1) Blessings tab (2) Learning tab
What are the 6 steps of an Interactive Writing Lesson?
(1) Shared Experience: the class, as a whole, is introduced to what they are going to learn and write about. Detailed and if book, cover is provided. (2) Prewrite: writers will have a purpose, audience, genre, and enough details to discuss with the class. It is how it is introduced-brainstorm ideas and builds your writing plan (3) Compose: Directly tied to the CCSS/ Teacher will provide a kid-friendly explanation of the craft/convention being taught and what your students are going to do. (4) Share the Pen: Teacher will share the pen with their students and provide specific information on what they will write and what they will ask their students to write. Typically teachers will write the more advanced stuff and allow their students practice things they know. Great time for teachers to do assessments and observations. (5) Review: 2 to 3 teaching points to review (what they want to review, ask simple questions about the lesson) (6) Extend: How will the students practice this independently? Have the students create their own writing piece. This is an extension activity that focuses on the skill they learned.
What are the characteristics of a classroom writing environment?
-I do, We do, You do (sharing the pen) -Teachers show students their work (display it) -no judgment zone, safe place -good materials (have materials like a erase board to show that it is ok to make mistakes)
What are the 6 stages of writing development of children?
1. Random Scribbles Stage: random pictures and marks 2. Organized Scribble Stage: more organized pictures and marks 3. Random Letter Stage: Strings of random letters 4. Letter/Sound Representation Stage: Letter-sound relationships 5. Stylized Sentence/Invented Spelling Stage: Repeated Patterns 6. Conventional Writing Stage: Conventional writing for a variety of purposes
(6) Conventional Writing Stage
Conventional Writing for a Variety of Purposes: children have learned to balance how words sound and how this may differ from what words look like (English language is irregular)
(4) Letter/Sound Representation Stage
Letter-Sound Relationships: connection between spoken language and the letters that represent the sounds. They begin to express on paper by attempting to spell out each word they sound out.
How does interactive writing support the development of phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, and concepts of print?
Phonics: The teacher shares the pen and allows the teacher to observe and record letters/words that the students already know, the ones they don't, and the ones that challenge them. (decoding)----Hear words and letters Phonemic Awareness: allows students to hear the sounds in the words and then link them to letters that represent them. This will allow them to spell and write. They are using their vowel sounds. Fluency: Writers will be able to quickly come up with and create their writing piece. It will come fluent to them and easy to do. (automaticity) Concepts of Print: left-right, capitalization, punctuation
(5) Stylized Sentence/Invented Spelling Stage
Repeated Patterns (Organized around known words): invented spelling, using their phonemic awareness. Left to right sequence and will include some vowel sounds.
(3) Random Letter Stage
Strings of Random Letters: strings become letters or letter-like forms. Uppercase and lower case
(2) Organized Scribble Stage
more organized pictures and scribbles: random at first, start resembling a line of text and are organized left to right and from top to bottom
(1) Random Scribbles Stage
random pictures and scribbles: developing understanding that print carries meaning/message.