Shared Writing Intro
Purpose
During shared writing, the teacher elicits student ideas and does all or most of the writing (or keyboarding) to help emergent or early writers co-construct meaningful texts. Shared and interactive writing help students learn about the writing process, make connections between spoken and written language, and participate actively in constructing texts for authentic purposes. Participation in shared writing can also strengthen students' growing knowledge of the reading process, as well as phonics, spelling and high frequency words.
Goals of shared writing include:
- help students make connections between spoken language and print
- help students develop strategies for constructing their own texts/ messages for many purposes
- strengthen connections/ understanding of reading and writing
- learning about different kinds of writing
