The Importance of Immersion: A Digging Deeper Dialogue

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Engaging with good writing helps students develop a vision when they’re asked to create their own texts. In this episode, we discuss why teachers will want to spend a few days immersing students in the genre they will write at the beginning of a unit. We share strategies and protocols to help your students engage in the work of reading like a writer at the beginning of a unit of study.

Check out these past Two Writing Teachers blog posts for more about immersion.

• Pre-Unit Immersion: Involving Students in Noticing, Noting, and Naming

• Immersion in Writing Workshop is Always Worth the Time

• The Immersion Phase of a Unit: Reading and Writing Collide 

• A Peek Into the Start of an Information Writing Unit

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