The Process of LEA
2. Discuss the experience with the students. This helps them to clarify what they want to write about, organize their thoughts, and come up with specific, descriptive vocabulary.
3. Write the story down as the students dictate it. For groups, have students take turns dictating sentences describing their experience.
Record what they say on large chart paper, repeating the words as they are written. For individual students, this can be done on a single sheet of paper, or it can be made into a book.
The writing should be done in neat, large printing rather than cursive, to make it easier for the students to read.
NOTE:
Try to stick to the students' own words exactly as they are spoken with a minimum of correction for grammar or sentence structure. It is important for students to see their own words in print, because they have a personal connection to the words.