Kate's Writing Strategies
The first writing strategy recommended for Kate is Writer’s Workshop co-developed by Lucy Calkins. Katie’s writing is very repetitive, she includes a lot of simple words, it is lacking details, and it was one long paragraph. Kate’s writing samples are very basic and need further development. Katie needs to learn how to write a strong topic sentence, and include details. As Kate masters when and how to apply what she learns, “the strategies will become second nature (Atwell, 1998, 115).” Writing workshop rules will help Kate develop routines that will support her, and are based on what successful writers do (Atwell, 1998). The teacher can model lessons on how to write a strong topic sentence, and add supporting details. Kate can then reread
…show more content…
Visual representations, such as graphic organizers can benefit students in many ways (Baker, et al., 2003). This useful organizer will help Kate write down key ideas and help her think ahead, and can be used for expository or narrative writing (Haager & Klingner, 2005). Kate will be able to make better connections, state main idea and add details to her writing with the use of graphic organizers (Robinson, Bush, Bera & Toberlin, 2003). McEwan (2004) determined that organizing is critical to improving cognitive strategies. Graphic organizers may achieve what text-books fail to do (DiCecco & Gleason, 2002, p. 306). Kate will see be able the relationship between key concepts from the text visually. Rereading her own writing to check for elaborate details will make her writing more clear and complete sentences (Quiocho & Ulanoff, 2009, 21)”. Two significant weaknesses revealed in the writing samples are sentence structures. She is in need of combining sentences. As a mini-lesson Kate’s reading comprehension would benefit from the use of semantic maps. A semantic map is one type of graphic organizer. It will help Kate visually organize and graphically show the relationship between one piece of information and another. The semantic map has been identified by researchers as an excellent technique for increasing vocabulary and improving reading comprehension including inferring
Visual representations, such as graphic organizers can benefit students in many ways (Baker, et al., 2003). This useful organizer will help Kate write down key ideas and help her think ahead, and can be used for expository or narrative writing (Haager & Klingner, 2005). Kate will be able to make better connections, state main idea and add details to her writing with the use of graphic organizers (Robinson, Bush, Bera & Toberlin, 2003). McEwan (2004) determined that organizing is critical to improving cognitive strategies. Graphic organizers may achieve what text-books fail to do (DiCecco & Gleason, 2002, p. 306). Kate will see be able the relationship between key concepts from the text visually. Rereading her own writing to check for elaborate details will make her writing more clear and complete sentences (Quiocho & Ulanoff, 2009, 21)”. Two significant weaknesses revealed in the writing samples are sentence structures. She is in need of combining sentences. As a mini-lesson Kate’s reading comprehension would benefit from the use of semantic maps. A semantic map is one type of graphic organizer. It will help Kate visually organize and graphically show the relationship between one piece of information and another. The semantic map has been identified by researchers as an excellent technique for increasing vocabulary and improving reading comprehension including inferring