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Immersion:
Introduce students to texts and authors who will become models and mentors for their writing. |
Generating Ideas:
Support students in adopting habits and practices of successful writers. |
Selecting an idea:
Encourage students to find subjects that matter and are relevant to their purpose and intention. |
Collecting:
Provide students with strategies for developing and researching their ideas. (K–1 writers are not yet at this stage of the writing process.) |
Drafting:
Help students envision, plan, and organize finished text. |
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Revision:
Guide students to effectively craft their writing to fit genre, purpose, and meet the needs of their intended audience. |
Editing:
Provide “skill” (spelling and punctuation) instruction directly related to student texts. |
Publishing:
Celebrate and authenticate students’ writing by preparing writing for an audience of readers. |
Teacher and Student Evaluation:
Identify the needs of your students by using a unit-specific rubric and student questionnaire for authentic assessment. |
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Rational:
An introductory explanation of what is being taught and why |
Preparation:
A list of materials teachers and students will need to complete the lesson, including the touchstone text(s) used in the lesson |
Teaching:
The language of each lesson has been carefully crafted to support teachers in presenting the lesson in a specific, clear, and organized manner
Inform: Teacher tells the students what is going to be presented and how it will address their needs.
Present: Teacher demonstrates or models the skill or strategy.
Engage: Students practice the skill or strategy.
Reiterate: Teacher restates the skill or strategy and why it is important.
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Conference Questions:
Questions designed to connect teachers to individual student's work |
Extension:
Ways to extend teaching as well as ideas for home-school connetions and follow-up lessons |
Appendices:
Reproducibles including charts, homework, graphic organizers, letters to parents, and more |
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