What is Modeled or Shared Writing?

Modeled Writing or Shared Writing is an approach to writing where the teacher and children work together to compose messages and stories. Children provide the ideas and the teacher supports the process as a scribe. The message is usually related to some individual or group experience. The teacher provides full support, modeling and demonstrating the process of putting children's ideas into written language. The children can illustrate the finished text when possible. Children will love to see their work displayed and feel successful because they can read it. The teacher often refers back to the shared writing throughout the day.

Teaching Methods

There are three components of Modeled Writing as follows:
The modeled writing process begins with an Introduction. This introduction captures the children's attention, providing them with background vocabulary and introducing key concepts that will be used in the writing.

The second component is the modeled writing. Children provide the topic and the teacher models how the topic can be taken from an idea to completion. This component is highly interactive and engaging. This provides opportunities to draw children's attention to letters, words, and sounds. The teacher thinks aloud the writing process as she writes. The third component of the process is the illustration. The illustration provides a meaningful transition to print.