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| Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting | This lesson involves students in two prewriting activities and two collaborative-writing activities where they draft an "oversized" story on chart paper. This lesson can be adapted to for use in an interactive writing activity. Grades K-2. |
| Collaborative Stories 2: Revising | The teacher leads this shared-revising activity to help students consider story content. Students participate in the marking of text and revising. This lesson can be adapted to for use in an interactive writing activity. Grades K-2. |
| Early Literacy: A Resource for Teachers - Interactive Writing | Scroll down to view the interactive writing activity. |
| Freedom Project | A collaborative project that two first grade teachers used in connection with the events of September 11th. This activity might be adapted in various ways for an interactive writing lesson. Although this activity was developed by first grade teachers, it might be a lesson that grade K, 2-3 teachers would like to try. |
| Interactive Writing Checklist | A writing checklist for students. |
| Interactive Writing: Sharing the Keyboard! | This site gives suggestions about using the computer to conduct an interactive writing lesson. |
| Instructional Strategies for Topics of Study | A listing of instructional strategies utilizing best literacy practices for English language learners. Scroll to see information related to interactive writing. |
| K-6 Balanced Literacy Pack- Interactive Writing | Definition of interactive writing, teaching methods, classroom activities, and resources. |
| A listing of principles and concepts that can help educators as they develop early writing activities. | |
| Online Autumn | Elementary students in the United States and Canada share their language arts activities in this collaborative Internet project about autumn. This site might be used as a springboard for teacher grades 1-3 in the development of an interactive writing lesson. |
| An Overview of Balanced Literacy - Interactive Writing | This article explains the term interactive writing, then explains how shared reading is taught in class. |
| Persuasive Writing: What Can Writing in Family Message Journals Do for Students? |
When children recognize what writing can do for them, they are motivated to write and to work at making their messages clearer and more persuasive. This lesson can be adapted to for use in an interactive writing activity. Grades K-2. |
| Reading and Writing: K-2 Interactive Writing | A tutorial that includes video clips showing a first grade interactive writing lesson. |
| Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing | Through interactive writing, students work together to create an invitation letter for a group of their peers. In addition, students work independently to create invitation letters for their families. Grades K-2. |
| Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction | This research project is designed for primary students to engage in nonfiction text. Students construct sentences that are then combined with others in their topic group to form a "report" (paragraph length). Grades K-2. |
| WritingFix for Kids | Online activities that might adapted for use during a Negotiating the Text, Composing the Text, or Using the Space session. |
Read*Write*Think contains a wealth of reading and writing lessons. It is a collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo.
Bank Street's Guide to Literacy for Volunteers and Tutors , Bank Street College of Education provides reading tutors with a variety of information ranging from background information on literacy and early reading, sample lesson plans, activities, and information on other literacy and reading resources.
Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities from SEDL is a search tool for locating instructional activities.
