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Writing Strategies; Strategies relate with teaching writing
Topic Started: Mar 9 2017, 06:04 PM (65 Views)
Jennyjli

Strategies for Teaching Writing Skills

Writing is a natural extension of speaking and listening. It also connects to reading.

1. Prewriting:
Ask questions—Engage speaking abilities as it gets to thinking
Create a word bank—Relates to the topic—Key words, sentence structure, and grammatical structures
Draw Pictures—Of their ideas—Developing to writing notes
Preliminary Research—On the web, books, library, and interviews

2. Organizing:
Topic Sentences—One sentence that introduces main idea
Graphic Organizers—Put ideas into place on physical page
Open Ended Questions—Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How

3. Writing:
Understanding that a draft is not the final composition
Using fill in the blank template to begin—topic sentences, thesis statements, transitional words
Follow the graphic organizer—Put the information into words, sentences and paragraphs—Introduction, Body, and Conclusion

4. Editing:
Self-editing—Error Correction
Teacher-Student Conference
Revise—Polish—Publish

Teaching Strategies to Improve Writing:

• Use photographs, magazines, books, newspaper, video clips and movie clips to create writing
• Integrate Art: Brainstorm ideas through pictures and drawings
• Use graphic organizers, story maps
• Generate ideas through peer talks, debates, and group discussions
• Using Story Starters—My favorite holiday is ________, because ________
• Create a character (person/animal): Name, description (adjectives), action (verbs)
• Create a plot (details): Where, when, what, why, how
• Oral Presentation: Publish the final draft of essay/story


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Samueldelgado

Thank you. I love the simplicity of this process.
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amuncy

Thank you for posting these strategies! I am working on a mystery genre writing unit at the moment, so I willl try to include some of these stragies in my instruction. When I teach writing, graphic organizers are my best friends. ReadWriteThink has a lot of good materials to use with mystery genre writing including a planning organizer, a peer editing checklist and a rubric. I also am using a self-editing checklist from Writing A-Z, so that students are carefully going through each of the recursive steps of the writing process. We also watch videos on Flocabulary that explain and show examples of how to use different writing strategies. We watched one today about descriptive, "show not tell" writing and then the students had the choice of using that writing strategy in their own pieces.
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ambriz_d

Before WIDA testing, I was working with my students on creating a well-organized paragraph. Activities included recognizing topic sentences/supporting details in short pieces of text, creating a topic sentence given a set of details, creating supporting details given a topic sentence, and then writing their own complete paragraph. I think breaking down how to write a paragraph was very helpful for many of my students who struggle with keeping their paragraphs organized.
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Jennyjli

I found these strategies to be similar to the ones I use in my classroom. I have a poster of the writing process that the students can access for help when needed. This has been especially helpful recently since we have had two school-wide writing assessments. I put extra emphasis on teaching my children how to pre-write and brainstorm because I always want them to have a plan before they start writing.

Paige Lee
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mltctroxel

Teaching writing to all students is challenging. However, breaking down the process is very helpful. One step that is extremely important to teach is self-editing. Thank you for sharing strategies that can be utilized at every level (beginning-advanced).
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