Independent Writing

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Independent Writing

• Daily Activity
• Student Determines
• Purpose
• Audience
• Message
• Genre and Text Conventions
• Teacher Confers and Assists

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Process Writing

• Planning
• Generate information
• Organize
• Set goals
• Translation
• Mechanics of writing
• Review
• Evaluate (Did I stick to my plan?)
• Revise

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The Planners Blackboard
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Writers Craft

• Thinking as a writer
• Purpose
• Audience
• Planning Organizing
• Book Language Literary Styles
• Writing Schemas and Genres
• Conversational Learning
• Build Oral Language Structure
• Vocabulary
• Understanding

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Key Ideas

• Instructional Focus
• Viewing self as a writer
• Looking at the world like a writer
• Reading text like a writer
• Writing for a variety of purposes and developing
  a sense of audience.

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Conferring Points

• What is my purpose?
• Who is my audience?
• Is my message clear?
• What are my key points?
• How did I organize my text?
• Did I follow my plan?
• Did I achieve my purpose?

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Independent Reading Conferring

• Where is the author taking me in this story?
• Am I paying attention to the authors message?
• What lesson is the author teaching me?
• Why did the author choose this story to tell?
• What information is the author trying to explain
  to me? Chrys Hutchins

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Independent Reading Conferring (continued)

• When I finish this book, what would the author
  like me to remember?
• Why is the author spending so much time with this
  scene, character, topic conflict, resolution,
  clue, or fact?
• Have I figured out the authors big idea?
• Chrys Hutchins