• Students use the recursive writing process in narrative, informative, and opinion pieces.

• Students prewrite by categorizing and organizing ideas according to mode.

• Students create organized paragraphs.

• Teachers model the recursive writing process in narrative, informative, and opinion pieces.

• Teachers model how to categorize and organize ideas in preparation for writing in a specific mode.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to categorize and organize ideas into paragraphs.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback regarding drafts. 

When students struggle to move through the recursive writing process, teachers can… 

• incorporate strategies such as planning templates, sentence starters, interactive writing notebooks, and writing conferences.

• utilize collaborative strategies, such as shared writing, round-robin storytelling, and writing stations.

When students struggle to write paragraphs, teachers can...

• utilize strategies such as graphic organizers, anchor charts, and shared writing experiences.

• provide support in sorting and grouping sentences of student writing.

• model adding transitions to writing.

• Informative Writing: writing that shares facts and details in order to explain.

• Narrative Writing: writing that tells a story and is often anecdotal, experiential, and personal.

• Opinion Writing: writing that clearly states a view or judgment about a topic, supported by reasoning and examples. 

• Recursive: moving back and forth through a text in either reading or writing, as new ideas are developed or problems encountered. See also Reading Process and Writing Process.

• 4.3.W.1: Narrative writing

• 4.3.W.2: Informative writing

• 4.3.W.3: Opinion writing

• 4.4.W.2: Use purposeful vocabulary in writing