When students prewrite together in groups, they build their organizational skills and learn from each other. Let’s watch Rachel demonstrate how students can use a collaborative outline to structure their writing!

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Student writing is a largely individual process, but when they are allowed to collaborate with their peers in the planning process, they can help one another brainstorm and organize their prewriting ideas. Collaborative outlines for student writing help students prewrite effectively with the support of their peers. In this activity, students share main ideas, details, quotes, and organizational systems with one another in pairs or small groups. Teachers introduce a writing topic, as well as assignment expectations. Then, they give each student a stack of sticky notes on which they write their ideas for the topic. Students join pre-planned collaborative groups, where they share their ideas and assemble the sticky notes they have written into a beginning outline for writing. After the group activity, the teacher has the whole class share their ideas, and compiles their sticky notes into a class outline. Students begin the writing process independently, but are able to refer to this collaborative outline whenever they need it. Teachers can take the sticky notes up as a daily grade and use them as formative assessment data. As students become more proficient in their writing skills, they can initiate the sticky note outlines independently.

1) What is a writing assignment that would be well-suited to collaborative outlining?

2) What factors should I consider when I group my students? What background knowledge do I have that could affect the way I group them?

3) What expectations should I rehearse with my students before they work in collaborative groups, and before they transition between group work time and quiet, independent time?

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