Collaborative+Writing

**Collaborative Writing** Rationale: ** I chose this strategy because I want my students to see that a story can be creative and that writing can be fun. It also is a good opportunity for them to write their own twist on a story and it will still be correct.
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**Courses Implemented:** This strategy was used in a second grade special education classroom during writing class. It consists of 3 students all of whom have writing difficulty. They have trouble thinking outside the box or being creative.  **Diverse Learners:** Students like this strategy because they get to be creative and there are almost no restrictions to their writing. They are able to work at their own pace and create a visual in their head of what they want the story to be like. Students are allowed to use anything in the room to help them out with their part of the story.

**Procedure:** **Potential Issues:** Students may not be able to think of ideas to go along with the start of the story or have difficulty thinking about what to write.
 * I showed the students my collaborative writing from the writing class I took and we read it and discussed how we wrote it. I told them that today they were going to do the same thing.
 * We talked that collaborative writing is when there is a group of people and someone starts the story and then passes it onto another person to do the middle part and then another person does the ending.
 * We talked about how it could be anything that they wanted it to be and to use their creative minds to think of the story.
 * One student then wrote the beginning.
 * Another student wrote the middle
 * Another student yet wrote the ending
 * After they were done they were to take a part and illustrate it.

**References: ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 10pt;"> Graves, DH (1994). //A fresh look at writing//. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Stephens, EC., & Brown, JE. (2005). //A handbook of content literacy strategies: 125 practical reading and writing ideas//. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc.