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Recommendation 4: Create an engaged community of writers. - Coggle Diagram
Recommendation 4: Create an engaged community of writers.
Teachers should participate as members of the community by sharing their writing
"Teachers should model how the ability to write affects their daily lives, demonstrate the importance of writing to communicate, model the perseverance required to create a good piece of writing, and express the satisfaction that can come from creating a meaningful text" (35).
Students should be given choices in writing.
Students can choose between topics, voice (view of a peer, an audience, a narrators etc)
Clearly state expectations with regard to content and writing skills, while giving students room to express themselves.
Students should be encouraged to collaborate in their writing.
Have students brain storm ideas about a topic, peer revise and edit, create writing groups, a group can work on a single story together. Younger students can take turns sharing a pen to write,
Students should give and receive feedback during the writing process,
Students should share their writing in order to receive written and verbal feedback to identify if their writing is accurate.
Teachers should give feedback in rubrics and conferences but peer feedback may be easier to identify issues than self review can be.Peer comments, observations, and feedback, enhances their understanding of their own writing.
Students should be explicitly taught strategies and appropriate language for giving feedback. Students should be taught to provide constructive and positive comments.
Publish students writing, extend into the community.
Teachers can create a "wall of fame", put student work in the hall, have students create a "about the author page".
This helps students to see themselves as writers.
ROADBLOCKS
Teachers may be uncomfortable sharing their own writing with the students.
This is important in establishing a supportive writing environment.
If students pick their topics teachers may not be able to focus on content standards.
Expose students to genres of writing within the required content standards.
Providing dieback can be overwhelming and time consuming.
Teachers should encourage self evaluation, and peer reviewing.