ABSTRACT
Assisted writing activities occur in two settings: interactive writing and writing aloud. During assisted writing activities, children are mentored into how to use language and resources to support their writing development, including how to draft, revise, and edit their pieces. Writing aloud provides children with shared opportunities to learn how to construct and organize ideas for particular purposes and how to solve words on the spot. Interactive writing uses a predictable framework for scaffolding young writers. During the writing of the simple message, the children are practicing directionality, one-to-one matching, and return sweep on a single line of text. The teacher creates the tools and models their benefits as a writing resource while immersing the children in the experience. Revisions are perhaps the toughest activities to do with children who are programmed to make perfect attempts. As children develop control of particular behaviors, the editing checklist is revised to shift attention to a new area.
