Writing

1. Writing Development and Instruction

2. Quick reading check On a piece of paper, describe each of the following as it is explained in Chapter 9: • One of the components of writing workshop 2. One of the types of rubrics

3. Sulzby’s stages of emergent writing • Drawing as writing • Scribble writing • Letter-like units • Nonphonetic letter strings • Copying from environmental print • Invented spelling • Conventional spelling

4. Spelling Development • Prephonemic stage – letter strings; do not understand alphabetic principle • Early phonemic stage – MNMDF = me and my daddy fishing • Transitional stage – invented spelling • Correct spelling – spell nearly all words conventionally • Know that Bear and Templeton are the researchers who have done much work with spelling development.

5. What is writing workshop? • Associate Donald Graves with writing workshop. • Components: Focus lesson Writing Time Sharing • Recordkeeping with writing workshop has to be well organized. Why? Writing process Mechanical skills lessons

6. Assessing Writing • Rubrics • Analytic scoring • Holistic scoring • Primary trait scoring

7. Writing Process • It’s recursive, meaning you can go back and forth. • Know and use the editing symbols consistently. • Prewriting, writing or drafting, revising, editing, final draft or publishing

8. Learning the mechanics of writing In seven small groups, describe how spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, or handwriting may be taught and are embedded in writing workshop. Or, tell how special needs are met authentically through the writing workshop approach. Or, describe how and why spelling should be taught directly as well as authentically.