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The use of English for known words and the home language for words not yet acquired in English.
What is Code Switch
100
Journals that provide a means of two-way written communication between learners and their teachers, in which learners share their thoughts with teachers, including personal comments and descriptions of life experiences, and the teachers, in turn, write reactions to the learners’ messages.
What is dialogue journals
100
Personal writing that expresses emotion such as diaries or letters.
What is Expressive Writing
100
A strategy in which the student dictates a message while the teacher writes it down, sounding out the words in front of the child.
What is Individual Dictation
100
A mediated writing experience used to assist emergent readers in learning to read and write. With help from the teacher, children dictate sentences, and the teacher verbally stretches each word so children can distinguish sounds and letters. Children use chart paper to write the letter while repeating the sound.
What is Interactive Writing
200
An approach in which reading and the other language arts are interrelated and the experiences of children are used as the basis for the material that is written and then used for reading
What is Language Experience Approach
200
Journals students use to summarize a day’s lesson and to react to what they have learned.
What is Learning Logs
200
Structures that provide a template for a writing idea; scaffolds allow the learner to achieve at a higher level than would be attainable without the scaffolds
What is literacy Scaffolds
200
Children observe as the teacher writes a meaningful morning message addressed to all the children on the board about a specific event that is planned for the day or about an interesting question. The morning message is used as an instructional tool for discussing skills children are learning, such as conventions of writing or phonic elements
What is Morning Message
200
Narrative pieces written by students based upon books with clear patterns that can be emulated.
What is patterned stories
300
A journal in which readers record their first reactions to something they have read
What is reading response journal
300
The first two or three words of a sentence followed by blank spaces offered to students to support initial attempts at writing.
What is Sentence Stems
300
Rectangular pieces of tag board or construction paper upon which are written individual sentences from a story students have read.
What is Sentence strips
300
A basic outline for a story designed to help students organize their ideas about what they have read
What is story frame
300
A collection of sight words that have been mastered, usually recorded on index cards.
What is word bank
400
A regular writing session with the goal of building students’ fluency in writing through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing. Writers’ workshop usually includes a minilesson, writing time, peer editing, studentteacher conferences, and sharing. Students may be encouraged to choose a topic or the teacher may use writing prompts.
What is writers workshop
400
A set of recursive stages in which a writer engages in activities designed to solve certain problems unique to a particular stage. For early writers, as with more experienced writers, the writing process typically includes prewriting, drafting, sharing, revising, editing, proofreading, and publishing stages.
What is writing process
400
Motivational ideas or structures that are offered by the teacher to inspire students to write.
What is writing prompts
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