Chapter 5 Do More Shared Writing

A colleague of mine mentioned that she was going to attempt a shared writing using the current suffix we were studying. It sounded like a great opportunity for my students, so we also composed a shared writing together using words with the suffix -al. After, my colleague and I discussed our experiences with the shared writing. She had a tremendous experience and mine was good but not outstanding. I was a bit disappointed and wondered how I could improve upon the experience.
After reading Chapter 5, I realized that I had a different understanding of what shared writing was all about. When I taught second grade it was impressed upon teachers that when students share ideas you should always write exactly what they shared, so I used this technique with my shared writing and did not implement the part where I as the teacher expand on the students ideas and paraphrase their thinking while demonstrating cohesive writing. I am excited to try shared writing in my classroom soon.