Oh, yes, definitely--especially second grade. One would be "word slotting" for instance. If the class was midway through writing a poem (using shared writing), you could talk about descriptive language. Then, as a class, you could ferret out the boring words and phrases and "cross them out" so that the original word is still visible. Children could then be chosen to come up and write better descriptive words (still probably more shared than interactive writing), but then...as you proceed through the rest of the poem, individuals could slot in/write words that are interesting and descriptive. That's the part I would probably call "interactive writing." It's hard to think of when something proceeds through modeled writing to interactive writing to shared writing to student writing, and really it's just a continuum anyway. In the example above, it's not a straight road to release to independence, but then, what is? Also, word slotting could be used as interactive writing in these grades to demonstrate/do any craft lesson application. So if you wanted children to write in a passage including dialogue, you could provide the passage on a smartboard and individual children could add in the dialogue. It's a different experience when it's wholly the child's writing rather than shared. But...in the older grades, I think it would be a much rarer phenomenon because shared writing would take over. There is much less need for the children to do the writing themselves, rather than doing shared writing where the teacher records the group efforts, in older kids. I would use it occasionally for the fun that kids get writing it up there when noone knows what's to come. I guess the way I use it would be just as a different way to add pizazz and fun, and it doesn't really serve the same purpose interactive writing does for K and 1st.
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am used to interactive writing in the first grade, for the obvious > reasons. Can it be done in the second, third and fourth grades? And what > would be the goals/purposes of interactive writing at those grade levels? > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
