1. Partner Writing
Successful Practices

2. Adapted (with permission) from
Successful Practices with English Learners:
A Focus on Oracy Aida Walqui Director, Teacher Professional Development Program, Wested 3rd Annual Language, Culture, and Education Institute April 5, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

3. Collaborative Dialogue Writing
Everybody writes and takes notes.
2/3 of the ideas come from the text.
1/3 comes from your knowledge of life.
Wested, Teacher Professional Development, 2003

4. Use a picture from a lesson.

5. Think and Note Why should all students write? Why is copying okay?
Why is knowledge from life okay to write about?
Wested, Teacher Professional Development, 2003

6. Teaching Monitoring While Children Write

8. Think and Reflect Why do all students write down ideas?
Why is the teacher monitoring?
Wested, Teacher Professional Development, 2003

9. Children Share Their Writing

11. Think and Reflect
Why are the children physically close together during sharing?
Why are the children arranged to see one another while sharing?
Wested, Teacher Professional Development, 2003

12. What Do We Know about Reading?
To foster reader autonomy, teachers should offer students a range of instructional practices, robust and generative routines, and appropriate language models that can be appropriated over time.
Wested, Teacher Professional Development, 2003

13. Think and Reflect
In spite of all this knowledge, comprehension instruction continues to receive inadequate time and attention in typical classroom instruction.
Wested, Teacher Professional Development, 2003