Case
Writing Instruction

In Mrs. Brown's second grade class, there are a lot of students who do not understand the basic foundations of writing. Students struggle with complete sentences, and creating a story based on state standards. Mrs. Brown teaches a majority of reading and math small groups throughout the day, with content mini-lessons build in for whole group. How much time should Mrs. Brown devote to teaching the writing process, when reading and math are being taught during small groups?

Posted on: 10/15/14 | Views: 825
Solution #1
To devote your time to teaching your students the writing process, have your reading lessons make connections to whatever you are trying to write. Even if you have to have your students compare texts, write a summary about a particular story they read for the week etc. This will help the students to understand that writing has a process that they must follow. For example,one day in small group they can do pre-writing, then the next day they can start their first draft etc. Each day can be broken down into smaller steps in order for them to learn the writing process, and fully understand it.
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Solution #2
Including writing in all subjects taught is a good course of action. Building writing fluency can be done in many ways. Lesson activators and summarizes are great ways to have students write. Modeling and scaffolding are also good ways to ensure that students are learning the writing process. I often utilize graphic organizers for high school students when they write.
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Solution #3
Try adding writing into one of the reading centers. This allows for more practice outside of the writing block. Also, try writing sentences on sentence strips for students to read, copy, and illustrate. This will give them practice writing complete sentences with capitalization and punctuation.
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Solution #4
Consider implementing writer's workshop. This will allow you 10-15 minutes for a mini lesson 40-45 minutes for work time, during which you could conduct your small groups while other students are writing independently, and 5-10 minutes for closure or sharing time. Using this models gives you the time to address mini lessons and small groups. Your work time can be set up in a variety of ways. Students can write independently, work in small groups with you, work with a partner, or rotate a variety of centers that address reading and writing activities. As for integrating this into reading, you could read a mentor text during the mini lesson and demonstrate the skill using the book. Then students can use he mentor text to to create a piece of writing via making a connection or if informational, writing about the books topic.
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