Interactive writing is a shared pen technique that has largely disappeared from primary grade classrooms. In this article, we describe the interactive writing process. We then recount the way one first-grade teacher, Tessa, implemented the strategy with her students by walking the reader through one lesson. We present how, during this lesson,…

This is a qualitative case study (conducted in an urban, public school classroom in the United States) of the collaborative composing processes of two groups of first-grade students designated as English Language Learners (ELLs) as they wrote in a writing workshop context. I focused on a specific type of the students' hybrid composing practices:…