Interactive writing is a wonderful activity to help improve children's writing skills.
Happy Earth Week!
"Things We All Can Do To Help The Earth!"
In celebration of Earth Week, some of the students in my Kindergarten Phonological Awareness Group were interested in writing about the Earth during the writing portion of our lessons.
First, we did an interactive writing activity about the Earth. Our sentence about the Earth was "Please take care of me. " Then, the students decided what they would each do to care for the Earth. We brainstormed these ideas and wrote them down on the white board. I was so excited about the helpful and thoughtful ideas that were shared!
The children helped to "stretch out the sounds" while we were writing new and familiar vocabulary words. We clapped the syllables in the new words, decided how many sounds each word has and checked that our words made sense in the story. Finally, the children published their stories to share, complete with a picture to create an image of their sentence. We look forward to rereading these stories as a familiar reread and class book, which will help to build reading fluency and comprehension.
The children are wonderful authors who truly care for the EARTH! :)
More about interactive writing:
"Interactive writing is a dynamic literacy event in which reading and writing come together."
"Interactive writing is a collaborative writing experience for beginning writers in which the teacher guides students in the group-writing of a large-print text. Students participate in the composition and construction of the text by sharing the pen, physically and figuratively, with the teacher. The composition is read and reread by the group to make the reading and writing connection. "
by, Andrea McCarrier
from :(http://www.cfisd.net/dept2/curricu/ellang/INTERACTIVE%20WRITING.pdf)
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