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Best Practices:
Best Practices:
Have students write about the texts that they read.
Provide daily time for students to write
Teach students to use the writing process for a variety of purposes.
Teach students the writing skills and processes that go into creating text.
Increase how much students write.
Considerations:
Considerations:
Writing is recommended as a tool for improving reading.
Student comprehension of science, social studies, and language arts texts is improved when they write about what they read; specifically when they respond to a text in writing (summary, notes, asking questions) (Graham & Hart, 2010).
Students reading comprehension is improved by having them increase how often they produce their own text (Graham & Hart, 2010).
Writing about read texts is an effective activity for lower-achieving students, as well (Graham & Hart, 2010)..
Step 1 - Have Students Read Text
Step 1 - Have Students Read Text
Use online resources to have students read a text.
Step 2 - Plan Writing
Step 2 - Plan Writing
Student writing will look different at each grade level.
Students will progress faster if a teacher maps out assignments clearly and specifically, set realistic goals that match what students can do, gives students the tools they need to accomplish assignments in a reasonable amount of time, and models good writing.
Writers, even young ones, should have a goal or purpose in mind, know what is expected of them, and know who the audience for their writing is going to be.
Questions for students to ask:
WHAT am I writing? What is the assignment?
WHO is the audience?
WHY am I writing? (To entertain? To inspire? To explain? To persuade?
Use a checklist to guide you
Step 3 - Develop Your Specific Prompt
Step 3 - Develop Your Specific Prompt
Connecting comprehension to after-reading writing assignments is a good way to reinforce and extend comprehension and give students a defined context for their writing task.
What do you want the students to write about?
Narrative
Informational
Opinion
Use graphic organizers or story frames
Step 4 - Evaluate Student Writing
Step 4 - Evaluate Student Writing
Evaluating the foundations of writing will look very different in an online learning environment. However you can use a checklist to evaluate the students’ writing.
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