Final Interview

Questions

I gave students a blank piece of paper and had them answer the following questions:

• What is interactive writing?
• How do you feel about interactive writing?
• What have you learned from interactive writing?
• How do you feel about writing?

Findings

When students were asked questions about what interactive writing was, I found a lot of different answers. Some students began to quickly write what interactive writing was. Others were looking around the room for hints. To help those students, I drug our easel to the middle of the room and said, "this is what we use when we are interactive writing." There were light bulbs going off around the room. Students quickly began to write. Most students said it was, "writing in a group" or "writing together". One student said, "Interactive writing is picking a title and writing about it in a group." I was happy with this answer because I have stressed the importance of finding a "topic" to write about.

When asked what students learned from interactive writing I got some of the following answers:

• We learned about question marks and periods
• I learned great stuff
• I've learned you have to use spaces
• In interactive writing I've learned about animals, school, and other things (she is referring to the topics we wrote about)

*There were also quite a few blank lines for that question in particular. One of my *favorite* responses can be seen below!

Overall, when students were asked how they feel about writing- the majority enjoyed it. This is a change from the beginning of the school year!