EXTRACTING

THE JUICE PART 4:

TEACHING PARAGRAPH WRITING AND NARRATIVES

Inspire

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

~ Stephen King

Define

Narrative writing

Activity 1: Start by using simple stories.

Be Creative

Use pictures and texts. Expose students to

the language.

Focused word work: Vocabulary and grammar items

For weaker learners -Start with guided writing in the first

stages.

Don’t forget to make it fun!

Activity 2: Writing Pelmanism

1. Read the story a few times.

2. Cover some words / phrases /sentences.

3. Ask students to guess the covered words / phrases /

sentences. 4. Gradually increase

the number of covered words /

phrases / sentences until everything is

covered. 5. Ask students to

rewrite the story.

Activity 3: Modelled and shared writing.

Introduce the key words / vocabulary.

Teacher demonstrates it to the students first.

Encourage students to give their ideas / inputs.

Activity 4: Guided collaborative writing.

Use the sentence panel. Let the students master the sentence structure.

Introduce time markers, conjunctions and connectors.

Cynthia C. James ‘Beyond Chalk & Talk’

http://cindyjbj79.blogspot.com