Teaching Writing

Teaching Writing

1. Transitional Writers

   • Teacher models
     • Students work collaboratively with peers
       • Using Writing strategies
       • Needs organization
       • Spends only a short time writing
     • Students learning to write summaries
   • Students learning to write Poems, Stories, and Information
     • Students read a wide range of texts
       • Learning stages of Writing Process
         • Uses information not needed
       • Learning mechanics of writing
     • using invented spelling

2. Intermediate Writers

   • Students work collaboratively with peers
     • Using writing strategies
       • learning to delete information not needed
         • Learning to plan their writing
     • includes details
   • Use knowledge of single syllable patterns to influence spelling with suffixes
     • Confident and fluent in writing
   • Teacher motivating students
     • Working on word choice
       • Spend substantial time on piece
       • writing with audience in mind
     • Writing has voice
       • self editors