K -2 Writers: Teaching and Guiding Young Writers

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K-2 Writers: Teaching and Guiding Young Writers Using the 6 Traits & other Writing Instruction Strategies with Young Writers

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K-2 Writers: Teaching and Guiding Young Writers

Using the 6 Traits & other Writing Instruction Strategies

with Young Writers

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Given the basic elements of K-2 writing instruction, participants will:

1. Recognize and validate the various forms of writing used by K-2 writers

2. Recognize and use tools, strategies and ideas to implement K-2 writing instruction

3. Ask questions, contribute, and discuss K-2 instructional practices

4. Instruct, support, coach and validate the modes: Persuasive (Opinion Pieces)Informative/Explanatory Narrative Shared Research and Writing Projects

5. Explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish

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At primary level, writing is wondrous and magical.

• Sketches• Scribbles• Dictated

Stories• Recordings

• Word Play• “Tadpole People”• Pictographs• Conventional

Text

Some forms are…

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Do you believe these Premises?

• All children can write in some form.• Children learn the language of writers

long before the traits are reflected in their own writing.

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Many times children don’t realize they can write. An effective writing teacher leads kids to an understanding of the four structures needed for early-childhood writing…Are dictation, scribblings, drawing, and temporary spelling necessary to early writing development? Yes.

Bea Johnson (1999, 42)

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Anchor WordsI* look here is* this up am a* go come in* it* see to* you* the* like of* we me that* at my on and*

*Identified by Richard Lederer as 25% of ALL words used in English.

From Donald Graves, A Fresh Look At Writing. 1994. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann. Pg 262. List assembled based on research by reading/spelling specialist Marie Clay.

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Ideas Organization Voice

Word Choice Sentence Fluency

Conventions

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Goals for Beginning WritersTo-

• Feel a sense of joy in writing/reading• To know the language of writers (the

traits, that is!)• To understand more than they can do

(revision, editing, etc.)

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How Traits Can Be Taught At Primary Level

• Teach the concept first• Read aloud-so they hear it• Connect you comments to the traits• Ask children to be assessors• Model writing-and ask for their help• Write from day #1

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Books- The Heart of It!

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Using Literature Effectively

1. Make a prediction (ORGANIZATION)* From the cover* From the first page* From the first line

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2. Choose favorite words (WORD CHOICE)* Write them down* Make a list

3. What do you picture in your mind? (IDEAS)4. How does the book make you feel? (VOICE)

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5. How much voice does this book have? (VOICE)* Ask students to vote* They can line up or form groups

6. Predict the ending: What will happen? (ORGANIZATION)

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7. Write a letter (ALL TRAITS)* To the author* To the illustrator* To a character* From one character to another

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8. Write a book review (ALL TRAITS)9. Look at the pictures in detail (IDEAS)

* What do you notice?* Is this illustrator a good observer?* How can you tell?

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Books For Developing A Sense of Place

Angelou, Maya. My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me. Clarkson N. Potter (Random House). ISBN 0-517-59667-9Bruchac, Joseph and Locker, Thomas. Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places. 1996. Harcourt Brace & Company. ISBN 0-15-200042-9.MacLachlan, Patricia. All the Places to Love. 1994. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-021098-2MacLachlan, Patricia. What You Know First. 1995. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-024413-5Ryder, Joanne. Earthdance. 1996. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2678-9

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Books for Developing a Sense of Self

Angelou, Maya. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. 1993. Random House. ISBN 1-55670-288-4.Baylor, Byrd. Guess Who My Favorite Person Is. 1977. Macmillan. ISBN 0-698-71052-6.Krull, Kathleen. Wilma Unlimited. 1996. Harcourt Brace & Company. ISBN 0-15-201267-2.Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach. 1991. Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-58030-6.

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Books for Exploring the Concept of StoryFox, Mem. Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge. 1989. Kane Miller. ISBN 0-916291-26-X.Lobel, Arnold. Fables. 1980. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-443046-4.Lobel, Arnold. The Frog and Toad Treasury. 1970. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-026788-7.Mathers, Petra. Sophie and Lou. 1991. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-443331-5.Polacco, Patricia. The Keeping Quilt. 1988. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-64963-9.Polacco, Patricia. Chicken Sunday. 1992. Philomel books. ISBN 0-399-22133-6.Steig, William. Amos & Boris. 1977. Puffin Books. ISBN 0-14-050229-7.

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Books Just for the Love of Language

Burdett, Lois. A Child’s Portrait of Shakespeare. 1995. Black Moss Press. ISBN 0-88753-261-6.Burdett, Lois, Macbeth for Kids. 1996. Black Moss Press. ISBN 0-88753-279-9.Burdett, Lois and Coburn, Christine. Twelfth Night for Kids. Black Moss Press. ISBN 0-88753-233-0.Dorros, Arthur. Isla. 1995. Dutton Children’s Books. ISBN 0-525-45149-8.

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Books to Show the Power of Informational Writing

Bash, Barbara. Tree of Life. 1989. Sierra club Books. ISBN 0-316-08322-4.Nussbaum, Hedda, editor. Charlie Brown’s Fifth Super book of Questions and Answers. 1981. Random House. ISBN 0-394-84355-X.Scieszka, Jon and Smith,Lane. Math Curse. Viking. ISBN 0-670-86194-4.

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Books To Build Observation SkillsBlizzard, Gladys S. Come Look With Me. 1992. Thomasson-Grant. ISBN 0-56566-013-7.Johnson, Stephen T. Alphabet City. 1995. Viking. ISBN 0-670-85631-2Wick, Walter and Marzollo, Jean. I Spy: A Book of Picture Riddles. 1996. Scholastic. ISBN 0-590-46295-4

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Give It TimeSome children pick up a pencil and begin creating meaning through text at a remarkable early age, because for them writing is totally natural. Similarly, some children will, almost from the first day, write much the way they speak, gracing every line with the truest of voices which flows like water when the writing is an extension of self. You can’t stop children from writing, if the tools are there.

Vicki SpandelCreating Writers, 357