Modeled or Shared Writing
What is Modeled or Shared Writing?
Modeled Writing or Shared Writing is an approach to writing where the teacher and children work together to compose messages and stories. Children provide the ideas and the teacher supports the process as a scribe. The message is usually related to some individual or group experience. The teacher provides full support, modeling and demonstrating the process of putting children's ideas into written language. The text becomes much richer than children can write themselves and becomes good material for children to read and should be displayed in the room. The children can illustrate the finished text when possible. Children will love to see their work displayed and will feel successful because they can read it.
Teaching Methods
There are three components of Modeled Writing as follows:
The modeled writing process begins with an Introduction. This introduction should capture the children's attention, provide them with background vocabulary and introduce key concepts that will be used in the writing.
The second component is the modeled writing. Children provide the topic and the teacher models how the topic can be taken from an idea to completion. This component is highly interactive and engaging. This provides opportunities to draw children's attention to letters, words, and sounds. The teacher thinks aloud the writing process as she writes. The teacher thinks aloud the writing process as she/he writes.
The third component of the process is the illustration. The illustration provides a meaningful transition to print.
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Resources
Video (Obtain from the Instructional Media Center)
15395 Using Modeled Writing to Maximize Your Students' Growth in Writing and Reading, K_1 (52 min.)
Materials to support Shared/Modeled Writing