Our writing PLD cycle begins at text level. We know the value of good writing models to demonstrate text types and structures, purpose and voice, vocabulary and punctuation use. Writing models can also provide our students with a way into writing with sentence starters or accessible structures. We can also use text models to explore the choices that writers make and how we might edit and improve our own writing. Models might be published texts or created by our students.
For this session, we each shared at least four models, chosen with our students in mind: how will this writing model advance my students' understanding of texts and give opportunities to improve their writing skills? We tried to think at text, sentence and word level.
Sharing our models in small groups, we explored the uses we could put them to in the classroom.
We also drew some general conclusions based on our discussions.
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