Given all the techniques in teaching writing that we have learned in class, please select one, either in using pictures, readings, or all the language skills, and explain it in no less than ten lines.
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Why Pictures Can Be as Valuable Resources in a Writing Class?
ResponderBorrarThey can provide a shared learning experience in the classroom, students find the need for the use of common language forms that they can become comfortable to.
There are a variety of tasks that can be done with our students to keep them interested in writing without them even noticing it. (This blog for example)
The use of pictures it’s a strategy to promote communication in the classroom, when students try to convey real information to each other or just describing images that they see on posters, textbooks, magazines, etc.
The lesson cannot be limited to what they see on the picture, students can make inferences, and predictions about the world beyond the picture…let them imagine what happened before the picture was taken of what happens after.
In order to go a step further and try for the student to connect with their writing we could ask them to bring their own picture and write the story behind the picture, this can have personal meaning for them.
Students can describe the picture, compare or contrast their findings with a partner or group. Ask them to write down what they would do in a certain situation seen in the image or what they would change from the picture if possible and why.
There are so many more activities that can be done through pictures to introduce writing in our classrooms and this way students can see that writing can be fun as well.
Technique : describing a picture
ResponderBorrarObjective : Students will write a description of the sketch of a room using prepositions of place , to later label the picture accrately
Procedures:
The teacher places or draws a picture on the board and asks students to brainstorm with items they observe.
Students discuss and give other ideas of vocabulary that can be used to describe the room.
The teacher erases or takes away the picture and students now write a description using details they remember.
The students exchange papers with a partner and tries to draw the room described .
Brainstorming is the process of coming up with ideas. You can brainstorm in order to decide on a topic, to explore approaches to your paper, or to deepen your understanding of a certain subject. Finding a brainstorming technique that works for you can greatly improve your writing efficiency. There are many brainstorming techniques to choose, take some time to try out several of these techniques and find one that suits your learning style. As example we have:
ResponderBorrarThe Key Word Clustering/Mapping: Write down key words or phrases relevant to y our topic of interest. Draw lines to identify connections between them.
And Free Writing: Write without stopping for a set amount of time, using one idea as your springboard.
Technique: Picture sets
ResponderBorrarObjective: students will write a sequenced short story, in accurate way, using pictures provided by the teacher.
Procedure: First the teacher shows a set of pictures, and gives a selected vocabulary list to the students, and explains that in order to write a sequenced short story, they have to write structured sentences and organize them according to what they see on the pictures, make sure to mention each stage of the set, and follow the correct sequence. This type of writing allows students to develop guided and free writing.
Steps:
1. Teacher shows a set of pictures and gives a selected vocabulary list of words.
2. Teacher gives the instructions to students.
3. Students observe the set of pictures and create their own idea about it.
4. Students begin to write sentences using the pictures and the vocabulary given by the teacher.
5. Teacher walk around the class and guide students.
Technique in using reading: Copy.
ResponderBorrarFrequently used with elementary-level students.
The idea with this is that the students practice and through this can master the new teachings.This also delop fluency of handwriting, gives the students mechanics of punctuation, spelling, capitalization and paragraph indentation.
There is a problem with copying. It´s hard to make it meaningful for students, this is becouse in real life, there are very few times that people use copy, they use it to save or remember something, like address or a recipe. In the currents times is easeer to take a picture with our celphenes than copy some information. In classroom we can ask the students to copy something that they can really use.
Copy examples.
1: Based on discussion in groups, each student copies the answers –
assembling variety of ideas in their notebooks.
2: A good piece of writing is copied as a model – can be referred for
practicing in dictation or summary writing.
3: Teacher writes new vocabulary words – students copy new words.
Technique: Examine punctuation and grammar
ResponderBorrarObjective: Look for the rules of punctuation and grammar the writer used in the story or paragraph, it develops students ability to identify the correct use of commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks and they realize the different meaning a sentence could have according to the correct use of punctuation.
Procedure: Students receive a paragraph missing punctuation marks and some grammar mistakes. The students have to read the paragraph and add punctuation marks and they correct grammar rules where he or she considers it is necessary. Then in pairs they exchange the papers make corrections in the paper, later on students discuss with the teacher about the missing punctuation marks, adds and mistakes.
Steps:
1)Students receive a handout with a paragraph missing punctuation marks and some grammar mistakes.
2)They read the paragraph and add punctuation marks and they correct grammar rules where he or she considers it is necessary.
3)Students exchange the papers to make corrections in the paper.
4)Students discuss with the teacher about the rules of punctuation and grammar mistakes.
Technique: Free writing
ResponderBorrarFree writing is a way of
training yourself to receive and transmit fresh ideas automatically. This is an individual technique that has like objective limbering the thought process. spelling and grammar are not important for this technique it is ideas that we are trying to grasp.
In this activity teacher gives to student a set length of time. The steps are:set a timer or use the clock on your computer screen, secondselect a topic for your free writing, then, start your time,write down whatever come to mind, after that continue writing until the designated time has run out, then, group your marked ideas and phrases and decide where they lead you in your writing process, and finally, begin your rough draft.
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Technique Using Diagrams, tablets graphs and charts. Students deal with given info. Presenting visually, and they work on conveying the same info in writing, that is , in a letter, report or composition. They will be able to give and follow instructions of how to draw a shape. First they are going to be organized in pairs, after that, one is going to give instructions of how to draw a shape and the other is going to follow those instructions. This can be done for improving students' language skills, their vocabulary, and their giving/following instructions skills.
ResponderBorrarSummarize
ResponderBorrarThis activity is done with the objective of testing students comprehension of the given text
It can be used in intermediate to advanced students, and it is supposed to improve discrimination of information from students
First they have to listen or read a text, and then they have to take notes for the most important details, at the end they have to sum up all that in order to create a summary with the information they had.
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ResponderBorrarListening attentively to your teacher is the key to academic success and in all areas.
ResponderBorrarThe ability to listen is very important because children have a better clarity in their activities to develop with the assurance that they will do the assignments correctly and so Will be able to engage any activity assigned to it.
If a child knows how to listen to instructions easily, he will learn to read and write and to succeed in society
Technique Using Diagrams, tablets graphs and charts. Students deal with given info. Presenting visually, and they work on conveying the same info in writing, that is , in a letter, report or composition. They will be able to give and follow instructions of how to draw a shape. First they are going to be organized in pairs, after that, one is going to give instructions of how to draw a shape and the other is going to follow those instructions. This can be done for improving students' language skills, their vocabulary, and their giving/following instructions skills.
ResponderBorrarTechnique Role play
ResponderBorrarObjective: Students will write brochure about the summer Camp using the diagrame.
1. Students split in pair or groups.
2. Teacher asks students to imagine a room at a summer Camp, students may describe it in order for the class to have a better picture of it.
3. Teacher tells students to pretend to be part the camp´s adversitising agency, and to prepare a broachre to attract young sport camp
4. Teacher tells students to pretend their boss asked them to beging the brochure with: Every youngster who comes to waterside camp has an extremely attactive private room
5 Students as a people part of camp is advertising agency gather in a meating to discuss what details should be added.
6. Students write a paraghap indibidually and read it to each other to sow which one work the best.