Learning+to+Write

As discussed in the Learning to Read page The Literacy Block allows ofr one hour of Writting per school day. As with learning to read, learning to write involves providing the students with many different oppurtunities to write together as a group as well as individually. In this page we will go over The writting process as well as teaching approaches to writting. The writting process involves five stages. Firstly Planning, here the author considers Purpose and audience, they generate ideas, then sequence them and set writting goals. Secondly Composing, here the author generates and picks the words and sentances to acieve the writting goals set in the planning phase.The author generally reads and rereads the writting as it is written. Thirdly Revising, the author detacts and fixex any problems with the writting, they add missing information, reorganise and resequence and delete information that is not needed. Following this stage is the Recording stage, here the concepts of print are explored, spelling punctuation, and grammer are corrected, illustration and handwriting/typing is important. Finnaly comes the Publishing stage, here the author prepares their work for an audience.They look at the layout, legibility and the proof read their text. Beginer writers do not have all of these stages mastered, nor does every piece of work go through all of these stages. When teaching writing the approaches are similar to that of teaching students to read. When teaching generally four approaches are used these are; Modelled - The teacher composes whilst thinking aloud about the writting process they are going through. Here the teacher has ownership and control of the writting process. Writting must be authentic. e.g. The teacher writes a sentance about the days weather...Today's weather is 20* c. (teacher may say out loud "when i start a sentance i must us a capital letter" Shared - Here the teacher writes after being romted by the students with their ideas and suggenstions. The teacher is still able to focus the class toward the stages of writing discussed earlier. Interactive - As the method states the teacher works with the class as a whole in in small groups to record a text. Here children joints come up with the ideas but the teacher propts children to poblem solve where spelling is difficult. Guided - would be mini lessons with an indvidual focus the grou need to work on. Each student writes individually. This couldbe a focus on spelling, or revising etc. . Students generally write in three genres; they are recount, narrative, and procedural. Genres re imports when student are learning to write as they proveide patterns to follow to mke the writting process easier.

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