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“Teaching writing is not just about composition—it’s about cultivating student voice, encouraging meaningful self-expression, and developing critical thinking across all content areas.”

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Writing as Self-Expression and Discovery

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Writing as Self-Expression and Discovery

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I believe writing gives students the power to explore who they are, reflect on the world around them, and make meaningful connections across subjects. My goal is to create a space where every child’s voice is valued and heard.

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“I will explicitly model each phase by implementing the full Writing Process—prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.”

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Modeling the Writing Process with Purpose

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Modeling the Writing Process with Purpose

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Students need to see what good writing looks like, and how it evolves. Through modeling, mentor texts, and real-world writing tasks, I will guide students step by step so they can write with confidence and intention.

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teacher modeling writing on a whiteboard to children

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“I will model giving and receiving constructive feedback and encourage peer review and reflection.”

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Feedback isn’t just about correction—it’s about growth. I’ll help students develop a mindset that values revision, encourages collaboration, and sees writing as a process, not a product.

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“We will celebrate student writing by sharing in the author’s chair, creating classroom anthologies, and participating in writing showcases.”

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Writing should be joyful and shared. My classroom will be a supportive community where students take pride in their work, learn from one another, and see themselves as real authors.

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“I will teach spelling as a cognitive process... and emphasize syntax by teaching sentence structure, parts of speech, and grammar in meaningful contexts.”

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Foundational skills like spelling, grammar, and syntax matter, but they’ll be taught in ways that make sense to students. I’ll use hands-on tools like word sorts, anchor charts, and mini-lessons that link form to function.

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interactive notebooks for elementary education

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Motivation and Engagement (L.5): Students will practice techniques to encourage and assess literacy motivation and engagement, selecting/using research-supported instructional practices to develop meaningful interactions with individuals and information, combined with experiences.

Composition(L.17): Students will select, craft, and assess instructional methods that develop written composition abilities in a variety of motivating and engaging contexts, including writing across the disciplines. Students will explore the following instructional practices: setting writing goals, offering/receiving/incorporating feedback, engaging the writing process and strategies, and studying models and non-models of writing for a variety of purposes and audiences

Vocabulary (L.14): Students will discuss and implement strategies to teach and assess vocabulary, including understanding of multiple meanings across contexts, figurative language, and morphological structures of words

Spelling (L.9): Students will develop strategies to use diagnostic and formative assessments to develop spelling instruction that emphasizes spelling as a connection between the individual and groups of phonemes (letter sounds) and graphemes (letter symbols) and morphemes (meaning units) that, among other things, allows readers to translate thoughts into written words (encoding)

Syntax (L.12): Students will select and use research-supported instructional techniques to teach and assess syntax as a set of principles that govern phrase and sentence structure, which varies across languages and dialect (word order and meaning, grammar, parts of speech, word order, varying complexity of phrases and sentences, etc.)