Procedure Guide: LOOP WRITING

Purpose: To help students generate and focus on a writing topic from a reading passage; it also helps students increase their writing fluency

Preparation

Prepare a transparency at a short text for modeling the procedure.

Before

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During

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After

• Have students freewrite on a topic of choice or as a response to a reading. Explain that they must fill one page at the very least. (You may change the minimum length.)
• Instruct students to read their freewrite and circle the most powerful word, phrase, or sentence.
• Have students write the word, phrase, or sentence as the title on a new piece of paper and freewrite again.
• Students read their new freewrite and again circle the most powerful word, phrase, or sentence to use as the title of another freewrite.

• Follow this in-depth prewriting activity with a writing activity that focuses on the organizational structure of writing.

Assessment

Quantity of writing

Freewriting expression