Teaching Writing to

Young LearnersBy Ahmad Murtaqi J

Introduction

Frazier (2013) argues that to be able to write in English, students must

have a basic foundation and understanding of the spoken

language. They must know about how to write alphabetical and

some basic sentence patterns to begin a good hand. And also the

skills that are helping students to write such as listening, speaking

and reading as part of the pre-writing steps.

The development of writing skills

According to Linse (2005), the process writing approach involves the

prosess-steps necessary to produce a good quality final piece of

writing. There are five steps of writing skills;

1) Prewriting

2) Writing

3) Revise

4) Edit

5) Publish

Objective of the study

Students understand how to write a good writing that comes from

their ideas and thoughts.

Target Learners

Second-degree students of junior high school

Activities

The activities are given;

1. Making sentence from random words

2. Listening songs to begin the writing activity

Activity 1 - Words

Make a sentence that contains at least 3 words from random words below!

1. Match the pictures with the words!

Activity 2 - Songs

2. Listen to the song and complete the text with the words from

exercise 1!

I wanna be your _______________ (1)

Breathing in your dust

I wanna be your

__________________(2)

I will never rust

If you like your coffee hot

Let me be your

_____________________(3)

You call the shots babe

I just wanna be yours

Secrets I have held in my heart

Are harder to hide than I thought

Maybe I just wanna be yours

I wanna be yours, I wanna be yours

Wanna be yours, wanna be yours,

wanna be yours

Let me be your ________________(4)

and I'll never run out

And let me be the

____________________(5) that you'll

get cold without

I wanna be your

_____________________(6) (I wanna

be)

Hold your hair in deep devotion

(How deep?)

At least as deep as the

_________________(7)

I wanna be yours

Secrets I have ..

3. Make one paragraph from your own ideas after listening the song!

Thank You