Our Museum Field Trip

An Interactive Writing
Project For a First-Grade
Classroom

By Joann Duff
 First - Grade Interactive Writing

• Connect what they write and see.

• Letter and Word Learning.
• Spelling Strategies.
• Grammar.
• Sentence Structure.
• Punctuation.
• Oral Language.
• Print Concepts.
Teacher Models How Good
Writers Think.
Create a Text and Write Together.
Learn Concepts About Print
 Stages of Writing

Stories, Field Trips, What the people ate. Teacher Guides

Experiments Writing..

• Agreed Upon Topic. • Students write

• Use a Shared word by word.
Experience.
 Multisensory Approach

Vietnam
Artwork Museum
Adds Diversity.

Child’s Work Field Trip

Identified Offers Rich, Varied
By Color. Experience.

Social Interaction,
Oral Language
Reflected In
Writing.
Consider Appropriate Words and Phrases

Colorful spacers
used to indicate
gaps between
words.
“Cross out, Change and Check….”
Learn New Skills, New Words

Edit
Proofread

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Summarize
 Writing on easel in
front of classroom,
children say what
they want to say.

Teacher guides
thinking and
Writing.

Class will share

thoughts in deciding
what will go into the
text.
Learning While Letter-sound relationships;

Thinking Segmenting sounds and

syllables;
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