Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Writing Instruction In Mrs. Brown's second grade class, there are a lot of students who do not understand the basic foundations of writing. Students struggle with complete sentences, and creating a story based on state standards. Mrs. Brown teaches a majority of reading and math small groups throughout the day, with content mini-lessons build in for whole group. How much time should Mrs. Brown devote to teaching the writing process, when reading and math are being taught during small groups? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Consider implementing writer's workshop. This will allow you 10-15 minutes for a mini lesson 40-45 minutes for work time, during which you could conduct your small groups while other students are writing independently, and 5-10 minutes for closure or sharing time. Using this models gives you the time to address mini lessons and small groups. Your work time can be set up in a variety of ways. Students can write independently, work in small groups with you, work with a partner, or rotate a variety of centers that address reading and writing activities. As for integrating this into reading, you could read a mentor text during the mini lesson and demonstrate the skill using the book. Then students can use he mentor text to to create a piece of writing via making a connection or if informational, writing about the books topic.