Writing
Student M needs to improve his writing fluency and development of one
main idea. In his writing sample, he was
inconsistent with his writing and jumped from one thought to the other without
connecting sentences or fluency. He also
struggled to separate sentences and had many run on sentences. We thought the best possibility for him would
to have him practice writing in a journal as well as provide him with modeling
of the correct ways to write.
Strategies:
- Journal: It is important for students to have the opportunity to express themselves in an area of interest. Student M would benefit from journaling because he needs to work on coming up with complete thoughts and eliminating run on sentences. Through journaling he can write about text that has been read to help expand his metacognition and inferencing. After reading a passage, we would have student M write questions he has about the passage in his journal and also write about what he thought about the passage (did he like it, yes or no, and reasons why). We would allow for student M to write first in his primary language if desired, and then transfer it to English. “Research and theory support the benefits of teaching children to read and write in their primary language first. It is easier to learn to read and write a language that is already known. Also, Literacy skills transfer across languages..” (Peregoy and Boye, 2008).
- Brainstorming Modeling: Student M would benefit from modeling how to effectively brainstorm and come up with complete and clear thoughts when writing. In his writing, his ideas were jumbled and not complete thoughts. For example, the organization of his thoughts was inconsistent and he could benefit from a graphic organizer and modeling on how to successfully write and organize his thoughts. http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/sandwich.pdf
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