Getting Started with Emergent Writing

Developed by the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education using federal funding, Special Education – State Program Improvement Grants for Children with Disabilities, CFDA # 84.323A.

Emergent Writing

• What is it? – The marks, scribbles, lines, and randomly selected

letters of beginning writers• During emergent writing students are

learning:– how to use a pencil– experiment and construct understandings– that writing is communication– to represent their ideas

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Getting Started with Emergent Writing

• Easy & Engaging Activities

• Teaching Strategies– Support Interaction– Modeling– Instructional Feedback

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Support Students in Selecting a Topic

• Verbal/Signed choices based on student

• Pictures

• Objects/Tactual Symbols

• Personal Remnant Books

• Classroom Remnant Lists/ChartsCenter for Literacy & Disability Studies, UNC-CH

Offering Verbal ChoicesTammy Lanning’s Classroom, Progressive Education Program,

Asheville NC

Classroom ListNancy Nation, 2006, North Shelby School, Shelby NC

Writer’s Topic Book

Krista Wilson, Valley Springs Middle School,Asheville NC

Nancy Nation, North Shelby School,Shelby, NC

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Pictures

• Magazines• Internet• Coupons & newspaper inserts• Personal pictures• Classroom pictures

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Tapping Into What Students KnowUsing Meaningful Pictures

Julie Brickhouse, Eastern Elementary, Greenville NC

Offer Tactual Choices From Real Experiences

Kelly Lane, TC Roberson High School, Asheville, NC

Using the Braille Flip Chart to write an “I Like” book

Rereading the writing after itcomes off of Braille Labeler

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Use Remnant BooksElaine & Jake Palmer, Charlotte, NC

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Group WritingFrom Tammy Lanning, Estes Elementary School, Asheville NC

Pencils Are Pointless Without.... a Meaningful Purpose

• Journaling• Emails, cards, notes, and letters• Picture/tactual captions• Signs & posters• Poetry• Write books• Activity related to current book

Offer a VARIETY of activities-avoid burnout

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JournalingJulie Brickhouse, Eastern Elementary, Greenville NC

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Writing is Small GroupsToy Dills-Booth, North Shelby School, Shelby NC

Sharing WritingToy Dills-Booth, North Shelby School, Shelby NC

Home Journal Entry June, 2004

Topic: Going to the Movies

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Home Journal Entry June, 2004

Topic: Going to the Movies

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Home Journal EntryAugust, 2005

Topic: Going to Greensboro

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Home Journal EntrySeptember, 2005

Topic: Going to the Doctor’s

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Home Journal EntrySeptember, 2005

Topic: Meeting Steffi

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Home Journal EntrySeptember, 2005

Topic: Mom being gone for two weeks

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Home Journal EntrySeptember, 2005

Topic: Mom being gone for two weeks

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Home Journal Entry December, 2005

Topic: My New Remote Control Dinosaur

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School Journal EntryJanuary, 2006

Topic: Bingo Game (which Jake won!)

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This module was developed by the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education

using federal funding, Special Education – State Program Improvement Grants for

Children with Disabilities, CFDA # 84.323A.