Reciprocal Processes: Reading and Writing By Janelle Carter About Me What you will walk away with today: ● Think time-What do you want to learn about the reciprocal processes of reading and writing? ● Write time-Write it down! ● Share time-Share with those around you. What we hear, what we see What do we say and/or feel when it comes to students in the area of reading and the area of writing? ● Reading ● Writing What do we notice about these students and what they are/aren’t doing? ● Reading ● Writing What we hear, what we see ● “I taught it and then I re-taught it.” ● “They clearly aren’t listening!” ● “He/she could do it but then he/she stopped.” A Shift In Thinking: What learning did the student walk away with at the end of my lesson? How could this question change the way we talk, feel, and reflect on the education of students? Instead of it being about what the teacher taught, let’s shift our thinking to be about what the student learned. A Marriage Between Reading and Writing ● Reciprocity ● Reciprocal Relationship ● “Mutually Supportive Processes” (Laminack, 2015) Literacy Breakdown: A Closer Look Reading-the action or skill of Writing-the activity or skill of reading written or printed marking coherent words on matter paper and composing text How does a teacher choose which comes first? Scope and Sequence ● State standards set the stage ● Districts develop curriculum maps and resources ● Teachers teach it ● What next? Is there a better way to reach students especially struggling students? Reciprocity, Reciprocity, Reciprocity! ● The chicken and the egg ● Without one, the other cannot exist ● Connected and dependent on each other ● Authentic and Strategic ● Author and Audience Baking: My reciprocal example Anderson, N. L., & Briggs, C. (2015, February 13). Reciprocity Between Reading and Writing: Strategic Processing as Common Groung. Retrieved October 27, 2016, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227757222_Reciprocity_Between_Reading_and_Writing_Strategic_Processing_as_Common_Ground Being Purposeful In Math, how do we teach students to view the four operations, measurement, or geometry? Discuss In Reading and Writing, how can we teach students to view craft, conventions, strategic processes, genres, etc? Purposeful in the Eyes of Students ● Do students need to know about this connection or just teachers? Why? ○ Discuss ● Think about the last lesson you taught, or observed, in reading and/or writing. ○ Turn and talk about how you linked reading and writing or how you could have linked the two. ○ What could you have done differently? Connections for Emergent to Transitional ● Letters Sounds ● Dialogue requires inflection Quotations ● Print moves left to right Spacing ● Visualization Craft ● Reflect on other relationships for a ● Reflect on other relationships for a emergent or early reader/writer. transitional reader/writer. ○ Write on a postit ○ Write on a postit ○ Discuss with those around you ○ Discuss with those around you ○ Share ○ Share Using what is known in different ways and in different contexts! Effective Teachers Make Meaningful Connections in Reading & Writing Anderson, N. L., & Briggs, C. (2015, February 13). Reciprocity Between Reading and Writing: Strategic Processing as Common Groung. Retrieved October 27, 2016, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227757222_Reciprocity_Between_Reading_and_Writing_Strategic_Processing_as_Common_Ground What that looks like in a classroom As the reader begins to gain confidence and independence, we pose the notion that the writer had to do something to set that up on the page in some way. So we return to that text to explore the same segment with the lens of a writer (Laminack, 2015). How can we build on the known to activate the new? ● Author-Reader knowledge ● Build on student’s experiences and knowledge ● Sensory Descriptions ● Character Motivations and Traits ○ A book’s characters are at the center of multiple relationships; this suggests that deep comprehension is dependent on the reader’s ability to infer and analyze characters (Dorn & Soffos, 2005). ● Sensory Descriptions ● Genre Studies ● Structures ● Author’s Purpose Genre Study & Language Workshop ● Provides authentic, rich experiences with multiple texts as a reader ● Develop student’s vocabulary and content knowledge ● Scaffolds & resources (such as a text map) are used to organize what was read but then utilized to organize what the student plans to write ● Students also have opportunities to explore more texts in reader’s workshop or writer’s workshop where they can respond to the text. Genre Study & Language Workshop Continued ● Discussions are able to center around the experience of the reader and then explain how writers use that same skill, strategy, craft, etc. ● Allows student to re-read and transform their view to that of a writer ● Students take their learning about how to read this particular text and transfer that knowledge in order to write their own piece. ● Writing is scaffolded by the teacher through conferences, anchor charts, and student notes from the in-depth study Choice in Reading and Writing ● Motivation is a key element for learning. ● “Teachers must also provide children with opportunities to learn how to self-select books; One of the biggest barriers to comprehension is a reader’s inability to select a book” (Dorn & Soffos, 2005). ● “In [independent writing], they choose their own topics and apply their knowledge of the writing process to their work” (Dorn & Soffos, 2001). Reading & Writing Conferences What children do and say while reading and writing can provide evidence of their mental activity or higher order cognitive processing (Vygotsky, 1978; Anderson & Briggs, 2011). Video Examples Explicit Language Can we say too much without saying anything at all? Teacher clarity about learning expectations, including the ways in which students can demonstrate their understanding, is powerful. Every lesson, irrespective of whether it focuses on surface, deep, or transfer, needs to have clearly articulated learning intention and success criteria. ● What am I learning? ● Why am I learning this? ● How will I know that I learned it? Fisher, D., Frey, N., & Hattie, J. (n.d.). Visible learning for literacy, grades K-12: Implementing the practices that work best to accelerate student learning. What WILL you do... ● tomorrow to build this connection for students? ● to foster purposeful connections in the classroom? ● to begin, or continue, purposefully teaching reciprocity in reading and writing? Take Aways: What were your three? Reflect & Share ???Questions??? Thank you for being here! Contact Me Janelle Carter Branson Cedar Ridge Intermediate Literacy Coach (417) 334-5137 ext 1201 [email protected] References Anderson, N. L., & Briggs, C. (2015, February 13). Reciprocity Between Reading and Writing: Strategic Processing as Common Groung. Retrieved October 27, 2016, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227757222_Reciprocity_Between_Reading_and_Writing_Strategic_Proc essing_as_Common_Ground Clay, M. M. (2015). Change over time: In children's literacy development. Auckland: The Marie Clay Literacy Trust. Dorn, L. J., & Soffos, C. (2005). Teaching for deep comprehension: A reading workshop approach. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse. Fisher, D., Frey, N., & Hattie, J. (n.d.). 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