Teaching Writing as a Process: Examine the Topic

Analyze Your Teaching

In this section, you will analyze your own teaching practices and share your knowledge with teachers of other grade levels.

Summarize a writing lesson you have taught. Include a description of the lesson, its purpose, writing format, and specific student outcomes. Then analyze this lesson by answering the following questions:

• How did this lesson support the curriculum?
• How did you confer with students to address their individual needs?
• How did instruction reflect the research principles presented in the lecture and your readings?

Use your notes on Dr. Paratore's lecture, your Writing Instruction Chart, and other activities to complete this assignment.

In order to understand the continuum of writing development across grades K-2, share your lesson analysis with teachers of other grade levels.

• What was similar about your lessons?
• What was different? Why?
• How does instruction differ from kindergarten through second grade?

	Submit your writing lesson summary.

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