Using guided writing

Guided writing is an individual or group activity where learners use word maps to organize their ideas and write texts.

1. Choose, or have the learner choose, a topic to write about.
2. Make a word map.

   See: How to make a word map

   • Write the word map for the beginning learner.
   • Help the intermediate learner write the word map.
   • Have the advanced learner write the word map.
3. Have the learner create a text from the map and write it down.
   • Allow the beginning writer to use inventive spelling.
   • Help the intermediate learner write the text.
4. Have the learner read the text out loud, or help the learner read the text

• Using conference writing

• Robson, DeVergilio, and DeButts 1990
• Laubach Literacy Action 1994:109-113

• Task module: Using guided writing
• In task module: Developing writing skills
• In task module: Developing literacy skills, by Martha A. Lane (contributor), Delle P. Matthews (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Anne Klaassens (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (editor, contributor)
• In task module: Teaching people to read and write, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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