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Curious and Confident Writers

Curious and Confident Writers. Tiffany Beedy 2 nd Grade. Developing a Room of Writers . YOU need to be a Curious and Confident writer first! Then you need to have your students catch you being curious I wonder… A nd catch you being confident GET EXCITED ABOUT WRITING

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Curious and Confident Writers

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  1. Curious and Confident Writers Tiffany Beedy 2nd Grade

  2. Developing a Room of Writers • YOU need to be a Curious and Confident writer first! • Then you need to have your students catch you being curious • I wonder… • And catch you being confident • GET EXCITED ABOUT WRITING • Make writing a fun time of the day

  3. Developing a Room of Writers • Create a safe environment where writers can share. • “If the child’s microsystem is unsafe, the basic human need for protection may pre-empt curiosity, creativity, and other growth needs, as the child’s energies are consumed by fear” Classroom Teaching, By Joe L. Kincheloe • Develop an Authentic Audience • Let the students know who their audience is before they write

  4. Informative Writing • Teaching Students what text features are • Digital Story where students work with Nonfiction text • http://vimeo.com/51227865 • Find information to use for writing • Organize the information

  5. Sticky Note Boards

  6. Informative Writing • Wrotesubheadings and add information • Read nonfiction text with subheadings • Used Sticky note board and organized the information by subheading

  7. Informative Writing • Teaching what definitions are • Using mentor text

  8. Informative Writing • Introductions • Using a question • Did you know… • Using a statement • “Look out! There is a moving snow bank!–A • Conclusions • You want me to end it I already put a period. • What is a conclusion and what is its purpose

  9. What I learned… • To be a writer myself • Including technology is important • Reteaching is OK • Formative Assessing is important • Respect the students work

  10. Nonfiction Mentor Text: Teaching Informational Writing Through Children’s Literature, K-8 • 2009 Lynne R. Dorfman & Rose Cappelli Foreword by Tony Stead

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