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Interactive Writing and Shared Writing: From the Archives

Whether you're a veteran teacher or early on in your career, there's always something to be gained from brushing up on the ins and outs of interactive and shared writing.

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Seen, Valued, Heard: Leveraging Shared Writing to Build Community

In my experience, many young writers struggle to use a writer’s notebook as a tool. They’re excited to have a notebook but unclear about what to “do” in there. Shared writing can be a powerful way to teach writers how to generate ideas for writing and to get themselves started, based on the books we are reading and discussing as a community.

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Conferring Toolkits: Class Stories, Shared Writing and Interactive Writing

Whether it's storytelling, or shared writing, or interactive writing, any piece of writing that your whole class created together is going to be extremely helpful to have at your fingertips while you are moving about the classroom conferring.

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Shared Writing 101: A Crash Course in Writing Together

A quick, down and dirty, overview of shared writing and how it might support your students.