Writing Interventions

Literate Days - Gretchen Owocki's Literate Days is a multimedia curriculum resource for preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade teachers looking to enrich and broaden their literacy-related instructional practices. Framed by research notes and kidwatching forms, lessons present ideas for enhancing existing teaching practices and for extending the quality of students' literacy experiences in times that are not typically considered "instructional".

Units of Study for K-5 - developed by Lucy Calkins and colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (Firsthand/Heinemann)

"We've written these teaching resources because writing matters. Demand for professional development in writing has far outstripped the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project's abilities to provide this support. These books reflect our efforts to hand over what we know so that more children can be given opportunities to grow strong as writers and more teachers can experience the extraordinary benefits that come from participating in a community of practice that evolves alongside a shared inquiry into the teaching of writing." —Lucy Calkins

Below are strategies teachers use to support varying degrees of writing ability in the classroom
(List compiled by Kansas Teachers, 2007):

• Write-Out-Loud
• Teacher conferences
• Scribe
• Increase knowledge by reading and attending workshops
• Encourage small steps
• Peer tutors
• Cooperative writing (Kagan Structures)
• Brainstorm ideas to put in journal
• Write about familiar topics