writingmodels3-5

=Writing Models 3-5=

(Focus Lesson, Guided Instruction, Collaborative Learning, Independent Work)
Sample Lessons Texts that lend themselves to each type of writing model

Writing Talk-Aloud Talk-alouds provide an opportunity to model the reading/writing connection so students can "see" and hear how an experience and skillful reader relates to and uses what the author has provided. For the text you use as a model, you need a passage or text excerpt that is well-crafted and worked for you as a reader. Using the attributes of the model text, write your own text presentation. In a writing talk-aloud, you "talk students through" how you used the attributes of the model to craft your own message.

Possible Writing Talk-Aloud attributes
 * Title and opening sentence working together
 * Parallel text structure
 * Organizational patterns (compare-contrast, problem-solution, enumeration, sequence, description)
 * Main idea sentence
 * Characterization (introduction of main character)
 * Story mapping

Steps of the Writing Talk-Aloud 1.Listening activation 2.Read paragraph aloud 3.Point out how you used the author's writing craft and/or organization in your own writing. (Compare the writing attributes of the two pieces--use an attribute chart to model for the students) 4.Student Application activity: students will do their own writing talk-alouds; sharing regularly--selecting their own models for writing and discussing the attributes they used.