Teaching+writing

There are four commonly used approaches to teaching writing. These are modelled, shared, interactive and guided. In a modelled writing session "the teacher selects teaching points relevant to the learning needs of the children." (Hill 2006, p.299) The teacher will then "model" the writing and the thinking processes associated with it. Shared writing is when the teacher continues to write however encourages input from the students. While providing guidance, the teacher and children complete the decision making and planning in order to create the text. Interactive writing is the same concept as shared writing however the teacher scribes the easy and high frequency words such as "at", "the", "on" etc and encourages the children to attempt to write the harder words. Independant writing is where the students are able to choose their own topic and complete their own writing. There are several stages to the writing process. These are planning, composing, revising, recording and publishing. Planning, composing and revising are labelled "authorial" roles and recording and publishing are "secretarial" roles.



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