A technique for teaching writing where the teacher and student work together to create a piece of writing. The teacher scribes for the children and models the writing process.

is an approach that we use often in THRIVE to help students practice great strategies they can use to get their thoughts on paper. In Shared Writing sessions, the whole class works through different stages of "The Writing Process" together. Often using the overhead projector or a chart stand as home base, the teacher acts as a "scribe" and guides the students through the kinds of activities that good writers do all the time: brainstorming, webbing, organizing ideas, drafting and/or editing. This approach offers every student many opportunities to contribute to the task of producing a finished piece of writing. Most importantly, this strategy gradually empowers students to do these things for themselves. (It is worth noting that many of the articles that appear in The Times, our online newspaper, began as shared writing assignments.)

Teacher and students compose a coherent text together. The teacher writes while scaffolding children's language and ideas.

The teacher demonstrates and shares the writing task with the students, who contribute ideas and vocabulary.

is an approach that we use often in THRIVE to help students learn some great strategies they can use to get their thoughts on paper. We've developed a totally-cool, high-tech way to involve everyone in the "The Writing Process." Using a notebook computer and an LCD projector, students take turns leading the planning, organizing, drafting, editing and publishing stages of writing. You've got to see it to believe it! This approach offers every student many opportunities to contribute to the task of producing a finished piece of writing. And it gradually empowers students to do these things for themselves. (Much of the writing we publish in The Times, our online newspaper, is developed in this way.)