INTERACTIVE

WRITING
 What is Interactive Writing?
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• Interactive writing is a writing process used to teach (usually
younger) students how to write. The process involves the
sharing of a pen between the teacher and students. It can be
done in a one-on-one private lesson with a student, or with a
small group of students.

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• 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.
 Purpose of Interactive Writing
• To teach children how to write well by allowing
them to directly copy the demonstration of the
teacher.
• Helps students advance their writing skills as using
the same pen as the teacher, immediately after their
example, creates the right mindset for the child to
copy the technique of the teacher correctly. By
directly following the guide of the teacher the child
advances far more than if they were to use their
own pen and paper.
•Children are generally encouraged to take
main control of the writing session, with the
continuous aid of the teacher. This not only
progresses writing, by practicing forming and
connecting letters, but it improves their
spelling. It also begins to set them up for
independent learning later in life. The system
can also be used to help students make
connections between letters, and clusters of
letters, and their sounds.
 Role of the Students and Teachers
The children take an active role in the writing
process by actually holding the pen and doing the
writing. The teacher’s role changes as she scaffolds
and explicates the children’s emerging knowledge
about print (Button, 1992). Through questioning
and direct instruction, the teacher focuses the
children’s attention on the conventions of print
such as spaces between words, left-to-right
and top-to-bottom directionality, capital letters,
and punctuation.