Over the past week, I learned that writing in the classroom is not typically what you think about. When I hear about students writing, I think of a blank sheet of composition paper and a pencil sitting on their desk and the students thinking hard. However, in today’s classrooms there are many different approaches to writing. In the early grades, teachers can use a process called Kid Writing to improve the students writing skills as well as expressing their ideas clearly onto paper. In the older grades, teachers can use the Four Square method for students to make connections from their thoughts onto the paper. This is a good strategy to use for the visual learners in the classroom. Another process of writing that you can use is Interactive Writing – this program allows the students to interact as a whole class to come up with the backbone of the writing. In class, the students who presented Interactive Writing showed us an example of the class working together to write the directions to create a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This would be good for students to use in the classroom to learn to work together as a group and collaborate many ideas into one solid idea.
