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Strategies for Organizing Classroom Writing Instruction

Strategies for Organizing Classroom Writing Instruction. Module 10. Strategies for organizing a classroom to provide writing instruction. Ensure students have needed writing tools Develop a writing community Teach independence Provide opportunities for one-on-one feedback. Module 10.

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Strategies for Organizing Classroom Writing Instruction

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  1. Strategies for Organizing Classroom Writing Instruction (c) Parcc, Inc. December 2015 Module 10

  2. Strategies for organizing a classroom to provide writing instruction • Ensure students have needed writing tools • Develop a writing community • Teach independence • Provide opportunities for one-on-one feedback (c) Parcc, Inc. December 2015 Module 10

  3. Ensure students have needed writing tools • Writing tools may include different styles of pens, pencils, computers and keyboards, paper—having a variety of choices encourages engaged student writers • Students need to learn to write using keyboards and paper/pen. • Teachers must ensure all students have needed writing tools during writing instruction. (c) Parcc, Inc. December 2015 Module 10

  4. Develop a community of writers • Help students to understand that all of them are writers/authors • Encourage students to take risks and try new out new ideas and strategies during untimed writing tasks • Foster dialogue about reading and writing • Celebrate writing successes through publication (c) Parcc, Inc. December 2015 Module 10

  5. Teach independence • Provide clear directions and expectations for independent work and model effective behaviors • Begin with a short amount of time expected for independence, praise success, and lengthen independent work time gradually (c) Parcc, Inc. December 2015 Module 10

  6. Provide opportunities for one-on-one, individualized feedback • Writing is personal and requires individualized feedback • Create space to allow for one-on-one dialogue • Establish procedures and processes that allow for one-on-one dialogue • Mini-conferences with focused feedback can have huge impact • Use a sentence starter or cloze statement focused on a single trait of writing • Read ahead (outside of class time) and be prepared with one focused comment • Share a strategy in writing and use oral feedback to clarify the use of the strategy • Peers and family members can help provided one-on-one feedback to student writers • Keep track of who has/has not received feedback and what the feedback itself was (c) Parcc, Inc. December 2015 Module 10

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