Writing Instruction

Add pair witting activities with the purpose of pairing up students based on their writing level. However, before doing this it is important that the teacher creates a comfortable atmosphere that helps the pair establish mutual trust. I think that students should not be allowed to always pick their groups, but of course it depends with the activity. According to recent research collaborative writing encourages social interaction among writers and their peer through activities. It is important that teachers provide scaffolding through writing lessons but with opportunities for students to expand their creativity. It is believe that writing must be enjoyable in order for student s to experience authentic and meaningful interactions with in.

In my field placement children do not receive much direct instruction, usually student tend to experience more drafting and less revising and/or editing workshops. However, while students are writing either by themselves or pairs the mentor teacher stops by to revise their work and give them concrete feedback.

Too improve writing instruction in my field placement I think that the five stages of writing process must be implemented at least once a week. “The stages are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing” (Tompkins, pg.52, 2010)

WHAT IS GENRE?

 

The range of ways in which things get done in a particular society or culture (Gibbons, p. 53)

•Purpose

•Structure

•Linguistic features

•Shared and recognized by   members of the culture

THE WRITING PROCESS:

 

•Prewriting

•Drafting

•Revising

•Editing

•Publishing

AUTHENTIC LITERACY ACTIVITIES:

•Replicate or reflect reading and writing that occur in people’s lives (versus using these experiences to teach specific skills)

•Purpose: serves a true communicative purpose

▫writing to provide information to someone who needs it

▫Reading informational text to answer one’s own questions

•Text: similar to texts that are used by readers and writers outside of school

▫Newspaper, brochure

▫Novels, memoires 

 WRITING WORKSHOP:

•Mini-lessons on all aspects of writing process

•Prewriting, drafting, revising:

▫Regular independent writing

▫Choice of genre

▫Writing conferences

▫Sharing rough drafts in groups

▫revising

•Editing

▫Proofreading

▫Correcting errors

PUBLISHING PROCESS:

•Author’s chair in class

•Display in library

•Read to students in other classes

•Class books

•Submit to magazine (Tompkins p. 61)

TEACHING POINTS:

•What am I learning about this student as a writer? What can this student do?

▫Ideas

▫Organization

▫Voice

▫Word choice

▫Sentence fluency

▫Mechanics

 

 Ideas for Writing:

•Discuss imagination, creativity, main ideas, and the importance and relevance of specific themes

Writing to inform, persuade..

GET LESSON IDEAS:
 
www.readwritethink.org 

Publishing Writing Site:
www.cyberkids.com