This week the professional development focused on the idea of interactive writing. I feel like this type of writing can be extremely useful for a small class setting. I utilized the skills I learned during my first grade sessions last Friday. We were working on building sentences using our sight words and the entire group participated in forming a sentence for the word "see". I saw it as a nice segue between me giving them a sentence and them writing one completely on their own.
Also, I used the concept of interactive writing during the "see" worksheet itself. I had students come to the board to fix the misspelled words.
I try to include the students in the discussion, instead of simply dictating to them; however, I think that there is definitely more that I can do to include them. Perhaps if they participate more than they will be more invested in the material and therefore absorb it better.
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