The students have opportunities to apply writing processes independently. The experience builds confidence through sustained, successful writing. The experience fosters creativity and the ability to compose. Opportunities are provided to use writing for different purposes across the curriculum. Collaborative Writing Students work together in pairs or small groups to create pieces of writing for a variety of purposes such as reports, stories, retellings, summarizations, poetry, plays, etc.
Students have real life, meaningful opportunities to practice their writing skills and processes.
Word Study Students work with words to connect reading and writing. Students are given opportunities to use what they know about words to make new words. Multiple activities with phonics and phonemic awareness. This experience allows students to become active learners. Students view spelling as an interactive process with meaning and purpose.