Writing Connections

this is Caitlin howard presenting my synthesis project

and the ways we connect writing elements.

Many lessons and shared writing

is my first connection and many lessons are a great way to bridge the

gap of knowledge or create a way to incorporate shared writing in your classroom,

shared a group.

Writing is a great way to get your students to collaborate,

especially when you're doing something like a mini lesson

where they're trying to learn the same thing,

You can have students work together to create a story or discuss

a topic that maybe they didn't quite understand the first time.

So if you were worried about something like sentence fluency,

you could have your kids get together to make sure

that they could write a paragraph that made sense,

beginning to stop up

and work on those connections

as a group.

So maybe one kid has a sentence and then another

kid has to find a sentence or make a sentence

to connect to the next one and you make sure that everything flows together

and

your students aren't going to feel quite as alone exploring

something that they struggle with or maybe don't know too well

when all the people around them are feeling the same way

and you can really see that in a mini lesson.

My next is pre writing an organization which go hand

in hand when you focus on organization of a piece.

Something we looked at a lot in our own classroom is graphic organizers.

We use them for our pre writing to line up what we wanted

to do with our stories for both when we practiced with the kids

and just did it by ourselves.

But the organization of a piece

is how you understand what you want to do with your piece.

And

that really goes hand in hand

as a whole. When you think about writing,

every kind of writing has a specific way.

It should be organized and involves a lot of organizational elements,

even if it's just as a way to figure out what you want to do, creating your job list,

be being able to make a beginning, middle and end,

especially when it becomes a part of your

higher education where you're writing has a format and

you have to think about maybe these five paragraphs have to be set up a certain way

or you have to worry about the flow of your story

and the cohesiveness that comes from organization is what's going to get you there.

My next topic is shared writing to publishing,

sharing time leads the way to publishing and is also a form of publishing.

You can start with things like sharing time in your classroom

to make your student more comfortable and then publishing comes around

and it's almost like practice for them.

Throughout the process,

students are able to share their work and

become more comfortable speaking in front of others,

reading in front of the class and displaying their work.

Publishing is just the final step of something like sharing

time where students are able to show their final product.

Our students had a very large publishing party where they shared their work,

but they could have easily had a small sharing time amongst their peers

to get advice and learn more about how readers to be their stories.

Sharing time is a really great way to make sure your students get comfortable

talking in front of their peers, sharing their ideas. So when at times

comes time for criticism,

it's not harsh, it's just something that's going to help them.

And they also get positive feedback.

Word choice in revising

revising and word choice online,

when an author goes through their work and decides to improve it

by adding more interesting details or

more descriptive words to enhance their story

in almost every writing class I've ever been in.

And with my own student,

we looked back through the writing of a piece

to find and add imagery and a stronger words

to give the reader a picture By revising for word choice.

Students are able to enhance their writing and show their creativity

in the first draft that may not have come through,

you always have to think about the greater

details and reevaluate your word choice in your work

to add new life to your story and find a way to draw attention to something

that might have been simple before

by adding a few new words or a few words that maybe aren't

the repeat. That happens when you are in a creative flow.

My final connection is voice and independent writing.

Independent writing and voice are connected Because when you write

independently characterizations about yourself are going to come through,

especially when you write things like a narrative when we wrote with the kids,

we were able to see their personality shine through in the

way they wrote in the way that is identifiable to others

in the same way that when I write,

my teacher knows it's me because I have a specific way of writing

that reflects who I am as a person and as an author,

my voice is coming through

and it won't

come through strongly with something like shared writing

because you're going to get a modeling of voices.

When you have an independent writer, you're going to hear that voice,

you're going to notice the words they use

the phrases and maybe even their thoughts and

opinions coming through depending on the piece because

it's something you're going to recognize over time.

That is my presentation. Thank you so much for watching

Osuna, I hope you're not super bored

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