According to Routman (2005), “Social context is crucial for learning, and shared writing provides the safe, collaborative setting that promotes cohesive writing” (p.85). For the last 3 years I have taught in a low income school where 90% of my students are English language learners. They often struggle with sharing their ideas orally, not to mention writing them. While they are motivated and engaged they often lack language skills to produce writing with appropriate voice and grammar. Using shared writing is so powerful. When my students share their ideas, we write together, which is ideal for all my students. They can be proud of what we produce together. Shared writing also promotes all of the language arts. Students speak, listen, communicate and read. Often times shared writing can be directly connected to a guided reading lesson or other shared reading task.
One important aspect of shared writing is in its name; “shared.” To be effective, the students and teacher should share the marker. Students should be encouraged to write words that they can, while teachers write the rest. The teacher should say the words as they are written and move quickly to keep students engaged. Just like shared reading, shared writing allows you to model and discuss strategies good writers use. Afterwards, numerous literacy activities can be done with this writing; such as cutting up the sentences and re-building them. These skills will pay off in a student’s independent writing!
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