Hello, again, Literacy Land! It's Andrea from Reading Toward the Stars. I have been working closely with our second-grade teacher to help her struggling readers {and writers} to show success in literacy activities. Recently, took on the writing aspect with these 5 students. We started by writing about someone in the group.
I started by modeling the entire process for them.
First, I made T-chart about my "friend" Beth. Now I don't have a friend named Beth, but she reminds me a lot of my daughter. We chose three items in each column to use in our paragraph.
Then I used the T-chart to write a short paragraph describing her. The kids helped a little, and we talked about making sure our sentences were not all the same.
The best part of the process was letting them work on their own paragraphs. They first interviewed a person in our group and wrote the information on the T-chart. _____ looks like and Things _____ likes to do. Then they chose their items wisely.
Finally, they used a framed paragraph that I created for this purpose to help them write a paragraph.
They loved doing this because they could feel successful in writing something that makes sense. It's amazing how something so simple can help students be successful in writing and take that success with them everywhere they go.
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