Paragraph writing

This week in class, the students were working on writing sentences in a final project form. They had already worked on a graphic organizer prior to this to organize their five sentences about why french fries are the best. The CT passed out their original graphic organizer which they worked on as a class as well as a copy of one she wrote in her own handwriting. The CT was working on the SMART board to write her small paragraph. The students were all supposed to write exactly what she wrote on the board into their final worksheet which was what they already had in their graphic organizer. Some students were working slower than others but the CT did not wait for those students that were falling behind. In one case she went up to a student and finished writing the sentence for him because he was not where the rest of his classmates were. I do not believe she handled this in the most effective way for the students. I believe they should have each gone over the sentences slower and she should have waited for students to be on the next sentence together. As she was moving on from sentence to sentence, their were several students that were completely behind and still on their first sentence. Those students seemed confused and lost and this activity was not done in the most effective way. Several of them were struggling to write their sentences but it was very beneficial that she included her own copy of her graphic organizer for each student so they can see exactly how the words in the sentences were spelled. I hope to see more writing assignments being done in her class and see the different strategies she uses to help her students with their writing.