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- Title
Teaching for Writing Expository Responses to Narrative Texts.
- Authors
Cummins, Sunday; Quiroa, Ruth E.
- Abstract
The purpose of this 'teaching tips' article is to describe practical classroom instruction that helps elementary students write expository responses to narrative texts. It focuses on the importance of scaffolded, interactive discussions comprised of a combination of teacher think alouds and similar student responses before, during, and after writing. Embedded within such instruction is the use of inquiry listening as a form of formative assessment. The article opens by highlighting a problem posed by a local literacy assessment and standardized test preparation measure for the focal children, namely, inconsistencies between the text structure analyzed (narrative) and the required product (expository textual analysis). Next, it outlines specific instruction involving interactive discussions that lead to comprehension of text structure(s) and clear conceptualizations of expected formats for written products. These include a) frontloading with photographs, and b) thinking aloud about writing samples.
- Subjects
INSTRUCTIONAL innovations; DISCUSSION in education; INTERACTIVE learning; INTERACTIVE assessment (Education); PROCESS-oriented guided inquiry learning; FORMATIVE tests; INQUIRY-based learning; WRITING processes; TEST preparation (Classroom instruction); EXPOSITION (Rhetoric); SCAFFOLDED instruction; LITERACY
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2012, Vol 65, Issue 6, p381
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/TRTR.01057