A Teacher’s Guide to Interactive Writing: The Classroom Essentials Series

Welcome to interactive writing, a foundational classroom practice that helps our youngest students discover the joy of writing as a community of learners. Letters, sounds, spelling patterns, and concepts of print come to life when teachers share the pen with children, collaborating to create text.

A Teacher’s Guide to Interactive Writing shares the principles, routines, and strategies of interactive writing in the PreK-2 classroom. You’ll watch how the magic happens, across the day and across subject areas, in 23 classroom videos with teacher Matt Halpern. Abundant teaching tips help you seamlessly weave interactive writing into your daily practice--no matter your curriculum or instructional approach.

Give your students the confidence to become ＂writers＂ even from the very beginning, with interactive writing.

Matt Halpern has over 20 years of experience as a K-2 classroom teacher, literacy coach, and school-based professional development provider. He is a national presenter on the topic of interactive writing, as well as how to seamlessly embed social-emotional skills into literacy lessons. Matt is the author of Look at My Happy Rainbow: My Journey as a Male Kindergarten Teacher. You can find more information about Matt at www.MattHalpernEducation.com.