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| Jennyjli | Mar 9 2017, 06:04 PM Post #1 |
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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 | Mar 13 2017, 04:37 PM Post #2 |
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Thank you. I love the simplicity of this process. |
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| amuncy | Mar 13 2017, 06:05 PM Post #3 |
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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 | Mar 21 2017, 05:41 PM Post #4 |
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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 | Mar 27 2017, 07:11 PM Post #5 |
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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 | Mar 27 2017, 09:19 PM Post #6 |
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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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