Interactive Writing: Research-Based Strategies for Teaching Writing to All Learners

Writing is a crucial component of daily life. Students are learning literacy, reading and writing, at a pace that was not heard of years ago. Teachers are teaching at a pace that was not heard of years ago. In addition, more students are entering schools at all grade levels where English is not their first language. The question becomes how to match the learners with the best practices of teaching. This webinar will address how teachers can scaffold all learners in their classrooms to become confident, accomplished writers. This webinar will examine how interactive writing can scaffold instruction for all learners no matter what level they enter the classroom.

Interactive writing is a research-based procedure that has origins in the 1960s but has been largely disappearing from classrooms today. Interactive writing is an effective, highly scaffolded practice. It involves collaboration between the students and the teacher. Interactive writing focuses on a conversation about a shared event. It addresses concepts of print, directionality, letter formation, and phonemic awareness. It builds oral language important for all students but especially so for English language learners. Interactive writing is rooted in social construction and is explicit teaching. It connects new learning to prior knowledge and extends student language before, during, and after the lesson. It can be completed whole or small group and is easy to implement.

The backbone of interactive writing is the conversation the teacher and student while they orally compose text. It models what “good” writers do. 

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