This month we continued to utilize the book, Interactive Writing Across Grades: A Small Practice with Big Results. Prek-5 by Kate Roth and Joan Dabrowski to look at how interactive writing can be an integral part of your writing instruction in all classrooms Kindergarten thru 5th grade.
From the introduction:
"Interactive Writing is a powerful approach to writing instruction. Initially designed to support emergent writers, it has been used recently in upper elementary classrooms with great success. When done on a regular basis, interactive writing has the potential to improve student's independent writing" (Roth & Dabrowski, 2016, p. xi)
Mrs. Verhougstraete, First Grade
"During the writing I focused on writing a story with a beginning, middle, and end. I was also able to reinforce some of the phonics work we are doing in small groups. It was easy to differentiate - I pulled one student up to work on the "t" spelling for /ch/ which is something his small group recently worked on while other students helped with more common patterns."
She said this writing experience was also a great way to reinforce phonemic awareness skills such as segmenting words to find the spellings for all of the sounds.
