Full Description
Find out how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. Jennifer Serravallo's Teaching Writing in Small Groups details essential practices for optimising groups that help you:
value each child's language and literacy practices
develop relationships with your writers
teach with efficiency
increase student engagement
improve independence
develop social support amongst students
provide space to give and receive feedback.
First, Teaching Writing in Small Groups lays the foundation for success. Jen shows how to create groups for maximum effectiveness and how to make what you teach responsive, clear, and sticky. Then she streamlines differentiated instruction with a menu of small-group options for providing just-right support:
strategy lessons
guided writing
shared writing
interactive writing
inquiry groups
reflection groups
coaching writing partnerships and clubs
Jen has thought of it all. Twelve videos with writers from Kindergarten to seventh grade from in-person and online classrooms model each type of small group, downloadable skill-progression note-taking forms provide focus for instructional decision making, and her 'Take It to Your Classroom' feature supports implementation for individuals or study groups.
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Contents
PART I: Writing Small-Group Fundamentals
1. The Case for Small-Group Instruction in Writing
2. Forming Groups
3. Understanding the Principles of Effective Guided Practice
PART II: Types of Small Groups
4. Strategy Lessons
5. Guided Writing
6. Shared Writing
7. Interactive Writing
8. Inquiry Groups
9. Reflection Groups
10. Partnerships and Clubs
VIDEO CLIPS
Coaching conference (Grade 1)
Strategy lesson (Grade 4)
Student-led strategy lessons (Grade 5)
Guided writing (Grade 3)
Shared writing (Grade 1)
Interactive Writing (Kindergarten)
Inquiry conference (Grade 4)
Inquiry group (Grade 7)
Goal-setting conference (Grade 4)
Reflection group (Grade 6)
Partnership conference (Grade 1)
Partnership conference (Grade 4)
