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TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING

WRITING IN ENGLISH



A. Developing a Written Vocabulary

Copying

Learn

theme-relatedwords

LabellingMakepicture

dictionaries



Simple Copying Activities

Words written in dottedoutline

Write out the plural form of the word

Divide the words intocategories

Write out pairs of rhymingwords eg: cat, hat, eat, meatetc.

Spelling pattern eg cat, bat,hat etc.



B. Teaching Sentence Formulation

The student tells the teacher a story /anything about himself

The teacher writes down what the studenthas told him

Show to the student written language

actually represents oral language.

Use the written story as a reading text

The student copy the text into his ownbook.



Story telling(oral

language)

Writes down(written

language)

Reading Copy



1. Sentence Completion

- The student copies from a model

Example : The dog is ….. (big, blue)

- The student uses vocabulary cards to

complete a sentenceExample : The dog is ………….

- The student writes original sentences

Example : The …………………….



2. Short sentence Long sentence Longer sentence

Example :

I saw a dog

I saw a brown dog

I saw a little, brown dog

I saw a little, old, brown dog



3.

Write down words thathave been taught ( on

separate index cards)

Take turns drawingcards.

Form sentences usingthe word.

Read each other’s card( when all the cards

have been used).



4. Plan activities that require writing only a fewsentences.

Example :

a) Greeting card messagesb) Post card messages

c) Description of pictures of things a

and persons.

d) Captions for pictures on bulleting

boards

e) Small books about a subject, like “Birds”

f) Dialogue for comic strips

g) Steps in an experiment



5. Sentence Combining

- a sentence pattern is provided, and the

student combines two given sentencesfollowing the modeled pattern.

Example:

The ball is big. It is on the table.

The big ball is on the table.



6. Arranging the words to form a grammaticalsentence.

Example :

cat, small, the, is

the cat is small.



7. Expanding the sentence by addingdescriptive words

Example :

many - boys - swimming - river.

There are many boys swimming

in the river.



C. Teaching Students to Write Texts

Rewrite the paragraph by arranging sentence which areout of sequence in a logical and meaningful order.

Give individual pictures. Ask the student to put thepictures in sequence. And then write sentences about

each picture sequential story.

Cut out an interesting picture from a magazine. Pastethe picture on a large piece of paper. Then ask thestudent to write a few sentences about the picture.

Daily dairy / personal journal.

Write connected text.



D. Principles of Teaching Writing

• The English teacher should : – Provide opportunities for sustained writing.

– Establish a writing community.

– Allow students to choose their own topics.

– Model the writing process and strategic thinking. – Develop reflective thinking and a sence of audience.

– Transfer ownership and control of the writing to the

students.

– Capitalize on current student interests. – Avoid punitive grading.

– Differentiate between personal and functional writing.

– Provide abundant input.

– Schedule frequent writing.



E. Remediating Problems in Writing

Auditory perception &

Memory of letter sounds

Provide practice inauditory perception of

letter sounds,strengthen knowledge

of phonics andstructural analysis.

Example :

Cat vs Cats

_’s’ One / more than one



Visual perception &

Memory of letters

Help the studentstrengthen visual

perception and memory so

that the visual image of aword can be retained



The Fernald Method

• make a model of the

word using crayon or marker say the wordas you write.

• check the accuracy of the spelling.

• trace over by indexfinger while saying theword

• Repeat step 3 five times.

• Copy the word 3 timescorrectly

• Copy the word 3 timescorrectly from thememory.

Cover-and-write method

• Look at the word : say it

• Write the word two times• Cover and write it one

time

• Check work

• Write the words threetimes

• Cover and write it onetime

• Check work.

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