LITERACY WORKGROUP

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Organizes and Develops Writing

 

 

Model, teach and have children practice strategies for organizing and developing their writing.

Provide regular opportunities for children to organize and develop their own writing.

RECOMMENDED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

 

INSTRUCTIONAL CONTRIBUTION

Pre-school
(ages 3-5, not yet in K)

Kindergarten- Grade1

 
 
Grades 2-3
 
  • Provide regular opportunities for children to organize and develop their own writing
 
  • Provide examples of different forms of writing around the classroom, e.g., lists, letters, poems, stories.

 

  • Model for children the revising process of adult writing, explaining choices in organization
 
  • Provide examples of different forms of writing around the classroom, e.g., lists, letters, poems, stories.

 

  • Model for children the revising process of adult writing, explaining choices in organization (e.g., rearranging ideas, using details, examples, and dialogue)
 
  • Provide examples of different forms of writing around the classroom, e.g., lists, letters, poems, stories.

 

  • Model for children the revising process of adult writing, explaining choices in alternative organizational patterns (e.g., enumeration, sequence, cause/effect, comparison/contrast)
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