Strategy Reporton Writing:

The You Speak/I WriteStrategy

ByDenise M. Colgan

This writing strategy was found after an Internet search for new sites with helpful teaching strategies:

http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/writingstrategies

Where the Strategy was found

This strategy is supported by the following research:

• Graduate School of Education – University at Buffalo

• TeacherVision http://www.teachervision.fen.com/reading-and-language-arts/skill-builder/48884.html

• Reading Rocketswww.readingrockets.org/strategies/writing_conferences

Description of the strategyAt first, the strategy requires two people. The writer must verbally respond to questions asked by the teacher or peer partner. While the student responds, the partner then writes down the information almost exactly as the writer says it. This is important because the writer must know that those are his or her words and ideas when going back to include them in the draft.

Description of the strategy II

• The questions that the listener/recorder asks are based on the draft or topic they are working with. Where are more ideas needed? Where can you help to generate more detail? Once the students get used to using this strategy, they adapt it for themselves to use it alone. Some students tape record themselves, some talk quietly aloud through their ideas.

Will this Strategy work best for one type of student over another

• The You speak/I Write Strategy helps the student who has trouble getting ideas onto paper.

• The You Speak/I Write Strategy makes writing part of the writing conference, and it builds on the struggling writer's strength with spoken language.

• Using this strategy gives writers confidence in their own ideas, because it gives them an opportunity to express them in a different way.

Why did you select this strategy?

• Offers a different approach to writing.• Offers more focus for the struggling

writer/student.• Allows students to work with peers.