LIT 102 Task #1 Blog

  Entry Ten: Promoting Writing – Strategies and Activities “You can make anything by writing.” – C. S. Lewis Types of Writing : Expository Persuasive Descriptive Narrative           Explains in a process format            Includes facts and examples             Logical in order and sequence              Argues from the author’s point of view            Includes reasons             Asks readers for recommendation and solution to the situation           Describes in a highly detailed manner            Poetic in nature giving details of places. People, events, situations, etc.           Uses and appeals to the five senses: s...

Assessing Students Writing  Teachers can evaluate their pupils' writing in a variety of ways. Journals are a common way to monitor pupils' writing development. To encourage kids to write regularly, a variety of journals might be employed. Diaries are a form of personal notebook that promotes writing about one's feelings and thoughts. Even though a diary cannot be used to evaluate a student's work, teachers can still encourage students to write diaries about what they learn and how they are feeling as a wonderful opportunity for kids to practice free writing. Additionally, there is a response notebook that allows students to consider a particular component of an activity they completed in class. In addition, they might ask or offer predictions while reading. Additionally, double-entry journals are available for students to make diagrams, record notes, and reply to texts they have read. While learning experiences for both language arts and content areas can be recorded ...

 This week, I realized that various writing strategies may be used for various types of writing. The writing techniques P.O.W. and T.R.E.E. can be applied to persuasive writing. The 3W approach can be used to implement narrative writing, and PLAN and WRITE can be used to implement expository writing. The strategy of releasing responsibilities gradually is what I would put into practice the most. With this method, the teacher would start by teaching background information. then spell out the plan. The plan would then be modeled. Collaborative use would be an addition. next, supervised practice The last choice is independent use. It might be stated I do, we do, and you do. This method would encourage kids to develop their own writing abilities. Making an environment that supports children's writing development was the last topic that caught my attention. Now that it was connected to establishing a reading environment, this got my brain working. Therefore, I came to the conclusion tha...

  Entry Nine: Promoting Writing – Approaches “Imagination is like a muscle I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.” – Philip Jose Farmer.” 1.       Penmanship Approach – Focuses on transcript which is the physical act of writing. It aims to produce legible and accurate letter formation on paper. This approach should be thought in a 10-20 minutes lesson. Start with formation of letters, gradually begin words, then sentences and then paragraphs. Penmanship was renamed ‘handwriting’ which we know it to be today. 2.       Rules-Based Approach – Focuses on rules of language and writing since colonial days. Initially, grammar was separated from handwriting, but they eventually merged together. It involves teaching how to correctly write words and sentences. It includes parts of speech, locating sentence elements, subject-verb agreement, pronouns, punctuation and capitalization, and spelling. In addition, adjectives, pr...

  Some strategies to help struggling writers 1. Before writing, share ideas Before writing, students should verbally communicate their thoughts. This can be done in front of a peer, a group, the whole class, or while being captured on a piece of technology. Struggling writers may find encouragement from classmates to get the courage to express their ideas and receive criticism. 2. Writing collaboratively Here, the entire class participates in the drafting of a group project. As the class writes the piece, many students start to share their thoughts. This encourages struggling writers to come up with creative ideas in addition to having a strategy for how to approach the project. 3. Employ sentence openers These give aspiring writers a framework to work within and serve as inspiration for their ideas. 4. Warm up for writing This activity is excellent for inspiring pupils' imaginations. Additionally, it motivates students to take notes. 5. Pre-writing This makes it easier for struggl...

  This week, a specific post that said "ways to encourage struggling writers" came up as the lecturer was showing us a video on instructional tactics for teaching writing caught my interest. The approaches that most resonated with me were conferences with students one-on-one and in small groups, teacher-led modeling and guided writing, chunking assignments with graphic organizers, mini-lessons, and giving students access to writing tools. To encourage my students to write actively, I would use these techniques in my language lessons. I would also modify one of the tactics, which entails giving pupils writing resources. No promise could be given that the pupils would bring back the supplies, including pencils, pens, crayons, erasers, and even markers, so I would engage in a trade with them. To ensure that the supplies were returned, they would have to trade their shoes or bookbags.