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Ms. Melissa Roy, Literacy FacilitatorWelcome to the Literacy Webpage! |
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The K-2 Writing Program
The writing process is taught throughout the school in grades kindergarten through fifth grade. While some language arts skills are taught through the Open Court/Imagine It! Reading program, teachers use the Units of Study for Primary Writing created by Lucy Calkins. This program is organized within a carefully crafted spiraling curriculum, with seven sequential units of study to teach narrative and expository writing. The Units of Study for Primary Writing program teaches students how to write with greater clarity and focus. The seven units of study are:
Often authentic children's literature is used to teach the writing features: focus (main idea), organization, support and elaboration (details), style (vocabulary and sentence variety), and English language arts conventions (sentence formation, verb and pronoun usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling).
Students in kindergarten also are taught writing through the Interactive Writing Program. Interactive Writing is a cooperative event in which teacher and children jointly compose and write text. Not only do they share the decision about what they are going to write, they also share the duties of scribe. The teacher uses the interactive writing session to model reading and writing strategies as he or she engages children in creating text. Interactive writing can be used to demonstrate concepts about print, develop strategies, and learn how words work. It provides children with opportunities to hear sounds in words and connect those sounds with corresponding letters. During the interactive writing process, students and the teacher talk about what they are going to write. The teacher serves as the facilitator of the discussion—guiding, modeling, adding, summarizing, confirming, combining, and synthesizing the children’s ideas.
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