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Teaching the writers' craft through interactive writing: A case study of two first grade teachers

Furgerson, Susan Paige
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1101760120

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2004, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Theory and Practice.
Interactive writing is an instructional context where the students and teacher share the pen as they collaboratively compose a text. As an unscripted literacy event, interactive writing allows educators to use understandings that they have about their students’ abilities as writers and their own knowledge of the writing process to model and discuss elements of writing that they want students to employ as they write independently. Educators have seen value in using interactive writing as a tool for helping children learn about letters, sounds, words and concepts about print. Currently, a few studies exist describing interactive writing as a support for children’s development of strategies for constructing a text; however, no published study focuses on the ways teachers use it as pedagogy for helping children develop strategies associated with the craft of writing. The purpose of this study was to describe how two experienced first grade teachers used interactive writing as an explicit teaching technique for teaching the writers’ craft and to identify the specific elements associated with the craft of writing that emerged as they assisted children in the negotiation of text. I observed and videotaped ten interactive writing lessons in each classroom over a six week time period at the end of the first grade year. I also conducted pre-observation and debriefing conferences with each teacher to find out what they considered in regards to planning for a lesson and to allow them to reflect on their teaching actions and assumptions following the lessons. The findings suggest that the teachers addressed the craft of writing during the interactive writing sessions through demonstration and by actively involving students in making decisions about the text before and while writing. Both teachers planned for writing, involved the children in planning for writing, and addressed the elements of sentence variation, audience, revision, and evaluation of the writing as each related to the craft. The findings of this study also underscore the fact that teaching is highly individual. Rich descriptions of the lessons provide authentic scripts that can assist teachers and researchers in identifying possibilities for variations in the teaching of interactive writing.
Gay Pinnell (Advisor)
266 p.
writing; elementary; interactive writing; writing process; case study

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  • Furgerson, S. P. (2004). Teaching the writers' craft through interactive writing: A case study of two first grade teachers [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1101760120

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Furgerson, Susan. Teaching the writers' craft through interactive writing: A case study of two first grade teachers. 2004. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1101760120.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Furgerson, Susan. "Teaching the writers' craft through interactive writing: A case study of two first grade teachers." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1101760120

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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