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The Writing Project
ESL Curriculum
Presented by: Janie OosterveenPart-time Bilingual Compliance Facilitator
NG Reach - Writing Follow the Writing Routines
Look for the pages identified as PD under the tab, Teaching Routines and Strategies at the beginning of the Teacher’s Edition
• Power Writing – Writing Routine 1
• Modeled Writing – Writing Routine 2
• Interactive Writing - Writing Routine 3
• Independent Writing – Writing Routine 4
All students will need an ESL Journal!
Power Writing Routine 1Daily Writing - Days 1 & 6
Purpose: To develop students’ writing fluency; provide anopportunity for students to record their progress in writingfluency.
1. Display a word or picture.2. Set the timer.3. Have students write.4. Check work.5. Count words.6. Repeat the procedure.7. Record the results.8. Adjust time.
Modeled Writing Routine 2Daily Writing – Days 3 & 7
Purpose: Model the process of composing to help students learn the writing process; writing strategies andwriter’s craft.
1. Develop a RAFT.2. Model thinking about the first sentence.3. Write the first sentence.4. Continue thinking aloud as you write.5. Involve students.6. Add a title.
Interactive Writing Routine 3Daily Writing – Day 5
Purpose: Scaffold students to turn collaborative oralcomposition into written form.
1. Establish a purpose.2. Talk through the text.3. Problem solving.4. Reread frequently.
Independent Writing Routine Daily Writing – Day 5
Purpose: Provide support to help students achieve success
as independent writers.
1. Provide appropriate writing prompt.
2. Use RAFTs
3. Support peer response.
4. Conference.
Day 1: Introduce the writing prompt, study a model
Day 2: Pre-write
Day 3: Draft
Day 4: Revise
Day 5: Edit and Proofread
Day 6: Publish
What is the Writing Project?
Fourth Grade Writing ProjectUnit Writing Trait Type of Writing
1 Focus and Coherence Article
2 Development of Ideas Business Letter
3 Organization Research Report
4 Voice and Style Tall Tale
Writing Trait: Rubric 1- 4
Located in each unit immediately after Day 10 of the second selection Focus and Coherence
• Focus• Completeness
Organization• Structure• Progression of Ideas
Development of Ideas• Content Quality• Elaboration
Voice and Style• Individuality• Word Choice
Written Conventions• Grammar, Usage,
Mechanics, and Spelling
• Sentence Fluency
RAFTRole Audience Format Topic
What is the writer’s role reporter, observer, eyewitness)
Who will be readingthe writing? (the teacher, other students, community members, editor)
What is the best way to present this writing? (in a letter, an article, a report, in a poem.)
Who or what is the subject of this writing?
reporter classmates
Article based on interviewInterview a neighbor or family member about a tradition that tells about
the person and describes the tradition.
Writing StrategiesAction Chain is a series of three closely related,
sequential events included in one sentence.
caught my toe in the carpet
fell forwardtumbled down the stairs
I fell down the stairs.
Writing Strategies
caught my toe in the carpet
fell forward
tumbled
I fell down the stairs.
I _____________________________________ down the stairs