Interactive Writing or Sharing the Pen (We): The students and I jointly compose writing pieces, word by word using a “shared
pen”, which allows them to brainstorm and collaborate with each other on letters, memos, invitations, or any kind of narrative story, as well as on reports in the content areas. Students can write interactively in response to a read aloud book, or another experience. Oral language is the foundation of this process. Interactive writing makes it visible for the students to see how written language works. It is a setting in which the children become apprentices working alongside the more expert writer, the teacher. It is very powerful not just for the beginner writers, but also for the whole group of writers. Other mini-lessons on the conventions of writing can be modeled during interactive writing as they occur in context.
pen”, which allows them to brainstorm and collaborate with each other on letters, memos, invitations, or any kind of narrative story, as well as on reports in the content areas. Students can write interactively in response to a read aloud book, or another experience. Oral language is the foundation of this process. Interactive writing makes it visible for the students to see how written language works. It is a setting in which the children become apprentices working alongside the more expert writer, the teacher. It is very powerful not just for the beginner writers, but also for the whole group of writers. Other mini-lessons on the conventions of writing can be modeled during interactive writing as they occur in context.
Elements
- Collaborative effort to compose text - Variety of genre in writing - Teacher is the main scribe - Students become scribe |
Benefits
- Provide opportunity to connect sounds in words to letters - Increase spelling knowledge -Use literature as a base for writing -Connect writing and reading |