Interactive Writing
Interactive writing is a shared learning opportunity where small or large groups of students compose text with the teacher’s guidance and support. Children “share the pen” with the teacher to compose any number of texts including things like:
- Lists
- Story Retellings
- Letters
- Instructions
- Stories about shared group experience
Interactive writing gives children the opportunity to synthesize the information that they are learning about the writing process and how language works. During an interactive writing session, children may practice:
- Composing
- Writing complex sentences
- Describing
- Letter formation
- Strategies for spelling unknown words
- Using punctuation
- Rereading
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