1. Purpose & audience: a) know ur audience b) establishing ur purpose c) formulating the mesage d) choosing ur style & tone.
- writing purpose: 1) to entertain 2) to inform 3) to persuade
-audience: must know the terms used in the field written.
2. The writing purpose: generally conducted as a group work.
- pre-writing stage: clarifies the purpose of writing, thinking, talking, drawing, remembering,test ideas about content & form.(select topic, generating & organise ideas)
- while-writing stage: burst of writing as ideas seek expression in the form of words.(drafting, getting feedback, revising, editing)
- post-writing stage : modification & intention to writing mechanics (presentation,display)
- outcomes: publishing & sharing provide responses that help discover how effective/valuable their writing
- encourage imaginative exploration
- discover what interests of the subject
- systematically gathering information
- sketching out possible structure for the essay
- saves time
- free writing
- questioning
- making a list/ brainstorming
- diagramming/ mapping/ clustering
- preparing a scratch outline
-Suggestions that will help with the actual writing:
- rewrite ur thesis statement at the top of ur 1st page
- write 1st paragraph, introducing essay & stating ur thesis
- follow ur plan as u write
- look over the supporting details
- turn the details into sentences
- ending essay in an appropriate fashion
-encourages to take a conscientious approach to ur writing
-use a system of marginal annotations to evaluate
7. Revising:
-re-writing a paper, adds coherence, variety, transition, emphasis & details.
8. Editing:
-to fix errors in grammar, punctuation & spelling
9. Publishing:
-sharing one's writing with an audience, reinforce the concept of an audience
Topic 4 : Supporting students to write
1. Techniques to support students as they learn to write:
- modelled writing (purpose: to demonstrate writing activity & conventions, how to use writing strategies
- shared writing (purpose: to demonstrate writing through thinking aloud, generate studs ideas, to create written texts)
- interactive writing (purpose: to demonstrate how to write words & sentences, use phonics & spelling patterns, use capital letters, punctuation marks, to create written text)
- guided writing (purpose: to scaffold a writing experience, introduce different types of writing actvt, to teach writing process, procedure, concepts,strategies & skills during mini-lessons.
- independent writing (purpose: to provide authentic context for writing practice, opportunities to choose writing topics & forms, to gain writing fluency & stamina, as tool for learning, to make & publish books)
- provide background knowledge before writing
- discuss & share the experience
- record the child's dictation
- read the text aloud, pointing to each word
- widen & develop the writing & reading experience
- assemble sentence cards
- write predictions before reading
- write responses after reading
- write letters and other messages
- make lists
- write daily news, recipes, poems
- make poster
- collect materials (chart, coloured marking pens etc)
- offer stimulus
- work out a text
- distribute materials for studs to exploit
- write the 1st sentence word-by-word
- display the completed writing chart on class notice board
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