ABSTRACT
This chapter offers teachers a variety of activities that encourage and develop writing fluency as well as a positive attitude toward writing. It focuses on developing the components that comprise fluent writing: the speed with which children write, the generating of ideas that motivate them to write, and the automaticity of the conventions of writing that allow them independence and confidence when drafting their ideas. The chapter outlines the components of the writing process as they pertain to writing fluency: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Prewriting strategies help children generate ideas for writing and determine what they know and need to know about the topic they choose. A comprehensive program of writing instruction should provide daily demonstrations and mini-lessons, modeling how writers use the conventions of language and think through many different kinds of writing strategies. Writing is important in the development of fluency because reading and writing are reciprocal processes in the development of literacy.
