Overview
Pay attention to what the samples tell you about the child’s abilities in the process of writing, writing conventions, and phonics knowledge, (ILA 2.3),. What writing traits did you find lacking in the samples you analyzed. You will provide copies of the writing samples as part of your artifacts.
At the intervention stage, plan two lessons to address the limitations you found on the writing samples. Identify authentic topics for writing instruction. You will plan a mini lesson to teach students something important about writing and demonstrate an aspect of the writing process. Efficient mini lessons are interactive, with students contributing ideas and examples.
You are expected to show knowledge of the writing process and traits of writing and writing development of children; and develop a sense of community in which children feel free to take risks to write in collaboration with the teacher and other peersIn your write up make sure to explain how you taught the writing process and used writing to develop reading and reading to develop writing to help with their literacy development. Each lesson should include a goal, teaching techniques, strategies, and activities, how you used scaffolding, the texts used, and technology integration. Indicate specifically what digital tool you used to encourage self-expression as you integrate the process to expand opportunities for reading and writing. In addition, provide examples of books that you could use for ideas, voice, organization in the writing process.
Reflection (6.1)
Writers have opportunities to work solo, in pairs, and in groups, fostering collaboration and cooperation. You will write a reflective, introspective paragraph about the activity stating theory and lessons learned on the writing process with the students. What was the purpose and your role for each stage of the writing process; prewriting, composing, revising, editing, and publishing. What teaching practices did you observe or read about that you will implement in your classroom? What questions or issues do you still have about writing as a process? How did you support your students as they surfed through the writing process? To finish, based on your observation in school, what are teachers doing for reading and writing instruction and assessment, what challenges are they facing, and what approaches do you recommend to colleagues on the aspect of writing which is most often neglected?
Recommendation: You will communicate your recommendations to the students and the parents. Based on the results of your instruction and your analysis and reflection on the writing process, you will make recommendations on the instructional materials, practices and assessment that can further develop the students’ writing. Review the strategies the students currently use effectively, their strengths and weaknesses and suggest some goals for his/her reading and writing development.
Communicate and share (ILA 3.4). in your final paper presentation, you will device, create an innovative, engaging method to share and discuss one or two books that resonate with you to use to teach one of the writing traits, with peers and faculty.