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How To Teach Writing

This document discusses how to teach writing. It defines writing as a productive skill that involves communicating messages through forming letters, words, and sentences. There are different text types that require different writing styles and organizations. All written texts have two things in common: they communicate a message and are intended for someone. Teaching writing involves accuracy skills like spelling and grammar, but also having ideas and organizing them effectively. The writing process involves stages like brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, and proofreading. Teachers should get students to plan, draft, and revise, and should respond to their writing through comparison, peer feedback, and guided tasks. Writing can be taught for learning or for becoming better writers. A teacher's role is to

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How To Teach Writing

This document discusses how to teach writing. It defines writing as a productive skill that involves communicating messages through forming letters, words, and sentences. There are different text types that require different writing styles and organizations. All written texts have two things in common: they communicate a message and are intended for someone. Teaching writing involves accuracy skills like spelling and grammar, but also having ideas and organizing them effectively. The writing process involves stages like brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, and proofreading. Teachers should get students to plan, draft, and revise, and should respond to their writing through comparison, peer feedback, and guided tasks. Writing can be taught for learning or for becoming better writers. A teacher's role is to

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How to Teach Writing

By Porntip Bodeepongse

What is writing?
A productive skill that involves producing language or communicating a message. Ss need to be able to form letters and words, and join these together to make sentences that link together to communicate the message.

Different text types involve different kinds of writing: Single words only Short/ long sentences Special layouts Different ways of ordering information Level of formality However, ..

All written text types have 2 things in common:


1. They are written to communicate a particular message. 2. They are written to communicate to somebody.
These two influence what and how we write.

What sub-skills does writing involve?


Accuracy
Spelling correctly Forming letters correctly Writing legibly Punctuating correctly Using the right vocabulary Using grammar correctly Using paragraph correctly

Writing isnt just about accuracy;-)


Its about having a message and communicating it successfully.
Enough ideas Good organization of the ideas Express the ideas in an appropriate style

Stages of writing
Brainstorming Making notes Planning (organising ideas) Writing a draft Editing Producing another draft Proof-reading

Teaching & Learning


Get students to plan Encourage students to draft and revise (edit) Respond to students writing
Compare Ss version with Ts Peer response Brainstorming Guided tasks

Writing in the Language Class


Writing for learning
Reinforcement writing Preparation writing Activity writing

Writing for writing


To help students to become better writers

Teachers task in writing


Demonstrating Motivating and provoking Supporting Responding Evaluating
Teaching or Testing?

What to teach (YL)


Handwriting Spelling Punctuation Sentence production Paragraph construction Text construction

What students need


Information & task information Language Ideas Patterns & schemes

Reference
Harmer, J (2004) How to Teach Writing, Pearson Education Limited, England

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