Here are some of the important points I got about guided writing.

Please do help me if I am wrong. Thanks

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Answer:

·  Guided Writing is an opportunity to provide explicit instruction to a small group of students with similar writing needs (not writing levels). These groups meet just once, making them similar to strategy lessons. However, they’re LONGER than strategy lessons since you’re literally guiding the writers in front of you through the steps to attain a writing principle over the course of 30-35 minutes. While you’re working with that small group, the rest of the class is engaged in independent writing.

·  Guided Writing, like Guided Reading, is about small group instruction. Ideally, Guided Writing groups should have 4-6 students in them.

·  Unlike Guided Reading, Guided Writing groups are based on need, not writing ability (read: heterogeneous grouping).

·  Students use their own writing while they’re with the group. After the teacher delivers the writing principle and goes through the procedural steps, s/he confers with each student while the rest of the kids are working on their own writing.