Interactive Writing
interactive writing with try-it section at the top
Interactive writing supports primary writers in use of conventions and mechanics. Teachers and students decide what will be written based on shared class experiences previously retold through oral storytelling. Teachers and students build the sentence(s) together, planning and recounting the words while sharing the pen at explicit teaching points. The amount written in a 10-15 minute interactive writing session should be representative of how much students are writing per-page during their independent writing time.
students use white boards, markers, and erasers for word play and to attempt building each word of the chosen sentence