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shared writing
By Julianne

Sharing the pen with students is an excellent way for them to learn writing skills. The first poster has given you some excellent techniques for making sure your students get the most out of the process. Now you need examples
of when to use shared writing.
- Students help to make the directions for a center rather than you writing them up alone.
- Students help write a set of classroom rules.
We try to work shared writing into our classwork at least three times a week. Ideally you would be doing a bit of it every day.
- Students help summarize and write how they did a science experiment and what

happened.

- Students help write the directions for doing a particular math process.

- Students help caption a bulletin board or other classroom visuals. Our class captioned large cut-outs of coins. "This is a penny. It is worth one cent..."

- Students write a group letter that you then copy onto the computer and send home to parents. It could be about anything you want to convey to parents - back to school night, news of the month, etc.

- Students write invitations to other classes or thank-yous to visitors

- Students help write lists of words that share a characteristic such as "-ap" words (cap, lap, map, etc.) This is where we start with our very new writers.