Shared writing not only boosts students’ confidence, but the teacher’s confidence as well!
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We should focus on one or two goals for the shared writing – ideas, participation, audience, editing, revising, and stop after ten or fifteen minutes. Shared writing involves collaboration among the students and the teacher as the teacher writes the ideas on the board or chart paper. The teacher guides students’ thinking and reinforces ideas and thoughts. Even young writers can be engaged in a shared writing experience. It’s important to have the students help spell words they know, reread the ideas, suggest changes or offer thoughts, and build on each others’ ideas in a positive manner. The teacher can help steer these ideas and ask students to reflect on their thinking. Rather than using worksheets, we can create authentic messages or sentences together and have students cut out the words and manipulate them back to the original sentence. Students can also use words from what we write as a class for other word work like word families, onsets, and rhymes. Shared writing gets students engaged and builds confidence to write on their own.
:) I love the cartoon you used. Shared writing is kind of a touchy subject sometimes as teachers aren't always sure if they can share as much as they need to. Also, sometimes as teachers, its hard to let us the control as much.
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