Teaching+Writing

=__**TEACHING CHILDREN TO WRITE**__ = Children write for many different reasons, but whether it is for organizational purposes, story writing, create stories, or to communicate ideas, writing is a very important tool for life. There are many **teaching strategies** teachers undertake as a guide to help children develop their writing future. These are modelled writing, shared writing, guided writing, independent writing and language experience and they are all described in the table below.



Hill, Susan 2006, p.299

__**THE WRITING CONFERENCE** __ during independent and guided writing, the writing conference gives the teachers a chance to help the children and improve their writing.

**Individual conferences** at this stage, the teacher is able to move around the classroom seeing each student as they go. There are various questions such as opening, following and process questions that may be asked by the teacher through this stage.

**Group conferences** during this stage in the classroom, a number of students, for example a third of the students may be having trouble with an aspect of writing, so rather than the teacher interrupting the whole class, the teacher may hold a group session where the teacher is able to help and guide these children that need help.