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, prefix
and suffix, conjunction, and fragments to complete sentences.
3.
Process
Writing Approach – This is the process of composing texts. This approach focuses on brainstorming before
writing, drafting, revising and editing. Workshop was introduced since it was
the same process that published authors used. Emphasis is placed on writing
full texts and meaningful either rather than spelling and grammar rules. The process
writing instruction has variation in which teacher teach thus approach
differently in their classroom. So, there is no one way of teaching this approach.
However, all variations follow the writing process; pre-writing, drafting,
revising, editing and publishing.
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