Teaching Strategies

Guided Writing

Guided writing serves as a scaffold to independent writing. Teachers discuss and model writing strategies with students. These can include using acronyms, templates and writing frames. More or less support can be provided depending on the needs of students.

The benefits of Guided Writing

• An effective way of modeling the structure and language of a range of text types.
• Supports students to sequence and structure their ideas to meet the purpose of the writing task.
• Differentiated support can easily be provided by giving more or fewer prompts/starters.

As students become familiar with the form, less support can be given.

Text Frame

How to Use a Text Frame
This strategy is used for creative writing. The teacher asks a series of questions designed to encourage students to imagine such things as a place, time, sounds, and sights. Students write short responses (1-10). The teacher gives the students a writing frame which enables students to expand on their ideas.

The Benefits of Text Frames

• Useful for modelling text language and structure.
• Allows for creativity within a supportive structure.